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#9,697 All-time worldwide
#123 1989 releases

Movie profile

In Country

1989 · 120 min · Warner Bros. Pictures

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $3.5M
Budget $18.0M
Gross minus budget -$14.5M
ROI 0.20x

Domestic gross

$1.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$317,877

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where In Country 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 #9,697 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #123 Release-year chart position of 218 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Studio / company #218 Warner Bros. Pictures of 288 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Bros. Pictures movie set. Primary genre #4,192 Drama of 5,859 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 In Country (1989) perform at the box office?

High confidence

In Country (1989) earned a reported $3.5M worldwide against a reported $18.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$14.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.20x. In this database it currently ranks #9,697 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #123 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross
$3,531,971
Budget
$18,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$14,468,029
ROI
0.20x
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

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Samantha becomes obsessed with finding out about her father.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 15, 1989
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures

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Studio / production companyWarner Bros. Pictures Release year chart1989 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, In Country is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Warner Bros. Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $3.5M, reported production budget is $18.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$14.5M, ROI is 0.20x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,697 all-time in the current chart set and #123 among 1989 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.