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#6,757 All-time worldwide
#110 1997 releases

Movie profile

How to Be a Player

1997 · 93 min · Poly Gram Filmed Entertainment

Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $14.0M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$5.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$8.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where How to Be a Player 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 #6,757 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1997 releases #110 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 1997. Studio / company #12 Poly Gram Filmed Entertainment of 25 titles Position inside the mapped Poly Gram Filmed Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #2,626 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.

#6,754 Kitchen in Paris 2014 · $14.0M #6,755 Follow That Bird 1985 · $14.0M #6,756 Jackie 2016 · $14.0M #6,758 Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh 1995 · $13.9M #6,759 La Belle Époque 2019 · $13.9M #6,760 Mysterious Island 2011 · $13.9M

Quick answer

How did How to Be a Player (1997) perform at the box office?

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How to Be a Player (1997) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $14.0M. In this database it currently ranks #6,757 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #110 among 1997 releases.

Worldwide gross
$13,960,203
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

Dray is a young playboy whose only objective in life seems to be to have sex with as many girls as he can without getting caught by his girlfriend Lisa. Dray's sister Jenny and her friend Katrina plan to show him that the way he lives is wrong and organize a party in Malibu, inviting all of his girlfriends.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 6, 1997
Production
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Island Pictures, Outlaw Productions
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyPoly Gram Filmed Entertainment Release year chart1997 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartRomance

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1997, How to Be a Player is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance title from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $14.0M. For comparison, it currently sits #6,757 all-time in the current chart set and #110 among 1997 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.