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#11,656 All-time worldwide
#173 1989 releases

Movie profile

How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired

1989 · 100 min · Dédalus

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $490,000
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$196,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$294,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$54,880

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired 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 #11,656 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #173 Release-year chart position of 218 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Primary genre #4,430 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.

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Quick answer

How did How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (1989) perform at the box office?

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How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (1989) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $490.0K. In this database it currently ranks #11,656 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #173 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross
$490,000
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

A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel. Bouba is a lazy amateur philosopher who quotes the Koran. Man's habit of picking up young white women makes many young white men jealous...

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 24, 1989
Production
Dédalus
Countries
FR, CA

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Studio / production companyDédalus Release year chart1989 box office Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Dédalus. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $490,000. For comparison, it currently sits #11,656 all-time in the current chart set and #173 among 1989 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.