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#10,927 All-time worldwide
#192 1998 releases

Movie profile

Henry Fool

1998 · 137 min · True Fiction Pictures

Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.3M
Budget $900,000
Gross minus budget $434,786
ROI 1.48x

Domestic gross

$667,393

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$667,393

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$120,131

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Henry Fool 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 #10,927 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1998 releases #192 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1998. Studio / company #1 True Fiction Pictures of 2 titles Position inside the mapped True Fiction Pictures movie set. Primary genre #4,198 Comedy of 4,840 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

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Quick answer

How did Henry Fool (1998) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Henry Fool (1998) earned a reported $1.3M worldwide against a reported $900.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $434.8K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.48x. In this database it currently ranks #10,927 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #192 among 1998 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,334,786
Budget
$900,000
Gross minus budget
$434,786
ROI
1.48x
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

An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 19, 1998
Production
True Fiction Pictures, The Shooting Gallery
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyTrue Fiction Pictures FranchiseHenry Fool Release year chart1998 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1998, Henry Fool is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama title from True Fiction Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.3M, reported production budget is $900,000, gross-minus-budget is $434,786, ROI is 1.48x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,927 all-time in the current chart set and #192 among 1998 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.