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#8,472 All-time worldwide
#124 1994 releases

Movie profile

Hoop Dreams

1994 · 174 min · Fine Line Features

Documentary
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $7.8M
Budget $700,000
Gross minus budget $7.1M
ROI 11.19x

Domestic gross

$3.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$877,028

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Hoop Dreams 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 #8,472 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1994 releases #124 Release-year chart position of 238 titles Ranked against movies released in 1994. Studio / company #5 Fine Line Features of 15 titles Position inside the mapped Fine Line Features movie set. Primary genre #95 Documentary of 204 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

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Quick answer

How did Hoop Dreams (1994) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Hoop Dreams (1994) earned a reported $7.8M worldwide against a reported $700.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 11.19x. In this database it currently ranks #8,472 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #124 among 1994 releases.

Worldwide gross
$7,830,611
Budget
$700,000
Gross minus budget
$7,130,611
ROI
11.19x
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

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the support of their close-knit families, they battle the social and physical obstacles that stand in their way. This acclaimed documentary was shot over the course of five years.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 12, 1994
Production
Fine Line Features, Kartemquin Films
Countries
US

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1994, Hoop Dreams is positioned in this dataset as a Documentary title from Fine Line Features. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $7.8M, reported production budget is $700,000, gross-minus-budget is $7.1M, ROI is 11.19x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,472 all-time in the current chart set and #124 among 1994 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.