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#10,876 All-time worldwide
#106 1981 releases

Movie profile

Goodbye Pork Pie

1981 · 105 min · Pork Pie Productions

Adventure Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.4M
Budget $300,000
Gross minus budget $1.1M
ROI 4.67x

Domestic gross

$560,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$840,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$156,800

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Goodbye Pork Pie ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #10,876 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1981 releases #106 Release-year chart position of 138 titles Ranked against movies released in 1981. Primary genre #1,995 Adventure of 2,138 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 Goodbye Pork Pie (1981) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Goodbye Pork Pie (1981) earned a reported $1.4M worldwide against a reported $300.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 4.67x. In this database it currently ranks #10,876 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #106 among 1981 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,400,000
Budget
$300,000
Gross minus budget
$1,100,000
ROI
4.67x
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

Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road trip adventure.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 5, 1981
Production
Pork Pie Productions, A.M.A. Film, New Zealand Film Commission
Countries
NZ

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyPork Pie Productions Release year chart1981 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1981, Goodbye Pork Pie is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Comedy title from Pork Pie Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.4M, reported production budget is $300,000, gross-minus-budget is $1.1M, ROI is 4.67x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,876 all-time in the current chart set and #106 among 1981 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.