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#4,629 All-time worldwide
#45 1990 releases

Movie profile

Green Card

1990 · 108 min · Rio

Comedy Romance Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $29.9M
Budget $12.5M
Gross minus budget $17.4M
ROI 2.39x

Domestic gross

$14.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$14.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Green Card 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 #4,629 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1990 releases #45 Release-year chart position of 205 titles Ranked against movies released in 1990. Primary genre #1,775 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.

#4,626 Pulse 2006 · $29.9M #4,627 Keeping Up with the Joneses 2016 · $29.9M #4,628 Crows Zero II 2009 · $29.9M #4,630 The Four Feathers 2002 · $29.9M #4,631 Mirai 2018 · $29.9M #4,632 Escape from Mogadishu 2021 · $29.9M

Quick answer

How did Green Card (1990) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Green Card (1990) earned a reported $29.9M worldwide against a reported $12.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $17.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.39x. In this database it currently ranks #4,629 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #45 among 1990 releases.

Worldwide gross
$29,888,235
Budget
$12,500,000
Gross minus budget
$17,388,235
ROI
2.39x
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

Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay in the country. Their marriage of convenience turns into a burden when they must live together to allay the suspicions of the immigration service, as the polar opposites grate on each other's nerves.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 23, 1990
Production
Rio, UGC, DD Productions
Countries
FR, AU

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Studio / production companyRio Release year chart1990 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartRomance Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1990, Green Card is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance, Drama title from Rio. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $29.9M, reported production budget is $12.5M, gross-minus-budget is $17.4M, ROI is 2.39x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,629 all-time in the current chart set and #45 among 1990 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.