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#10,796 All-time worldwide
#149 1986 releases

Movie profile

Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale

1986 · 71 min · Independent Newspapers

Comedy Animation
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.5M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$645,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$855,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$193,500

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #10,796 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1986 releases #149 Release-year chart position of 206 titles Ranked against movies released in 1986. Primary genre #4,155 Comedy of 4,840 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (1986) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (1986) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $1.5M. In this database it currently ranks #10,796 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #149 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,500,000
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Featuring the characters from Murray Ball's "Footrot Flats" (New Zealands most beloved local cartoon strip), questions to be answered include: Will Wal Footrot win the affections of Cheeky Hobson over the sleazy Spit Murphy? Will the Dog win the affections of the lovely Jess? Will Wal make a good impression on the selectors at Saturday's rugby match? Can Rangi and Pongo save Cooch's prize stag from the depths of Blackwater Station, home of the Murphys, their vicious dogs and deadly croco-pigs? All this and more will be answered as the small town of Raupo comes to life on the big screen.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 9, 1986
Production
Independent Newspapers, Magpie Productions Ltd.
Countries
AU, NZ

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyIndependent Newspapers Release year chart1986 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartAnimation

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Animation title from Independent Newspapers. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.5M. For comparison, it currently sits #10,796 all-time in the current chart set and #149 among 1986 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.