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#6,569 All-time worldwide
#203 2014 releases

Movie profile

Inherent Vice

2014 · 149 min · Warner Bros. Pictures

Drama Mystery Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $14.8M
Budget $20.0M
Gross minus budget -$5.2M
ROI 0.74x

Domestic gross

$7.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$7.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Inherent Vice 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 #6,569 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2014 releases #203 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 2014. Studio / company #163 Warner Bros. Pictures of 288 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Bros. Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,704 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 Inherent Vice (2014) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Inherent Vice (2014) earned a reported $14.8M worldwide against a reported $20.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$5.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.74x. In this database it currently ranks #6,569 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #203 among 2014 releases.

Worldwide gross
$14,810,975
Budget
$20,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$5,189,025
ROI
0.74x
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

In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 12, 2014
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures, IAC Films, JoAnne Sellar Productions
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2014, Inherent Vice is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Mystery, Comedy title from Warner Bros. Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $14.8M, reported production budget is $20.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$5.2M, ROI is 0.74x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,569 all-time in the current chart set and #203 among 2014 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.