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#6,353 All-time worldwide
#43 1980 releases

Movie profile

Hero at Large

1980 · 98 min · Kings Road Entertainment

Action Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.9M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$8.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$8.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Hero at Large 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 #6,353 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1980 releases #43 Release-year chart position of 126 titles Ranked against movies released in 1980. Studio / company #4 Kings Road Entertainment of 7 titles Position inside the mapped Kings Road Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #1,870 Action of 2,939 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.

#6,350 Armed and Dangerous 1986 · $15.9M #6,351 Next of Kin 1989 · $15.9M #6,352 Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday 1993 · $15.9M #6,354 Dance with Me 1998 · $15.9M #6,355 Blacklight 2022 · $15.9M #6,356 Vidaamuyarchi 2025 · $15.9M

Quick answer

How did Hero at Large (1980) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Hero at Large (1980) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $15.9M. In this database it currently ranks #6,353 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #43 among 1980 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,934,737
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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 idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 8, 1980
Production
Kings Road Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyKings Road Entertainment Release year chart1980 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1980, Hero at Large is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Comedy, Drama title from Kings Road Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.9M. For comparison, it currently sits #6,353 all-time in the current chart set and #43 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.