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#10,527 All-time worldwide
#192 1999 releases

Movie profile

Happy, Texas

1999 · 98 min · Marked Entertainment

Comedy Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.9M
Budget $1.7M
Gross minus budget $243,649
ROI 1.14x

Domestic gross

$777,460

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$217,689

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Happy, Texas 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 #10,527 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #192 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Primary genre #4,061 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.

#10,524 Running Out of Time 1994 · $1.9M #10,525 800 Bullets 2002 · $1.9M #10,526 The Legend of Nigger Charley 1972 · $1.9M #10,528 Madame Bovary 1991 · $1.9M #10,529 Spellbinder 1988 · $1.9M #10,530 Masterminds 1997 · $1.9M

Quick answer

How did Happy, Texas (1999) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Happy, Texas (1999) earned a reported $1.9M worldwide against a reported $1.7M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $243.6K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.14x. In this database it currently ranks #10,527 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #192 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,943,649
Budget
$1,700,000
Gross minus budget
$243,649
ROI
1.14x
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

Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go along with it to duck the police, but the local sheriff has a secret of his own.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 3, 1999
Production
Marked Entertainment, Miramax
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyMarked Entertainment Release year chart1999 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartCrime

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, Happy, Texas is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Crime title from Marked Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.9M, reported production budget is $1.7M, gross-minus-budget is $243,649, ROI is 1.14x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,527 all-time in the current chart set and #192 among 1999 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.