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#3,369 All-time worldwide
#17 1980 releases

Movie profile

Hardly Working

1980 · 91 min · 20th Century Fox

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $49.0M
Budget $3.4M
Gross minus budget $45.6M
ROI 14.41x

Domestic gross

$19.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$29.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$5.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Hardly Working 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 #3,369 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1980 releases #17 Release-year chart position of 125 titles Ranked against movies released in 1980. Studio / company #65 20th Century Fox of 209 titles Position inside the mapped 20th Century Fox movie set. Primary genre #1,284 Comedy of 4,945 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.

#3,366 Death at a Funeral 2010 · $49.1M #3,367 Cobra 1986 · $49.0M #3,368 About Last Night 2014 · $49.0M #3,375 Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre 2023 · $49.0M #3,376 The Berlin File 2013 · $49.0M #3,377 Addams Family Values 1993 · $48.9M

Quick answer

How did Hardly Working (1980) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Hardly Working (1980) earned a reported $49.0M worldwide against a reported $3.4M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $45.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 14.41x. In this database it currently ranks #3,369 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #17 among 1980 releases.

Worldwide gross
$49,000,000
Budget
$3,400,000
Gross minus budget
$45,600,000
ROI
14.41x
Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

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Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 30, 1980
Production
20th Century Fox, Hardly Working
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production company20th Century Fox Release year chart1980 box office Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1980, Hardly Working is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from 20th Century Fox. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $49.0M, reported production budget is $3.4M, gross-minus-budget is $45.6M, ROI is 14.41x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,369 all-time in the current chart set and #17 among 1980 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.