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#8,615 All-time worldwide
#90 1987 releases

Movie profile

Ironweed

1987 · 143 min · Taft Entertainment Pictures

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $7.3M
Budget $27.0M
Gross minus budget -$19.7M
ROI 0.27x

Domestic gross

$3.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$657,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Ironweed 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 #8,615 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1987 releases #90 Release-year chart position of 235 titles Ranked against movies released in 1987. Studio / company #2 Taft Entertainment Pictures of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Taft Entertainment Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,650 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.

#8,612 Mean Machine 2001 · $7.3M #8,613 Who's That Girl 1987 · $7.3M #8,614 Phat Girlz 2006 · $7.3M #8,619 The New Toy 2022 · $7.3M #8,620 Outside Providence 1999 · $7.3M #8,621 Laid-Back Camp the Movie 2022 · $7.3M

Quick answer

How did Ironweed (1987) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Ironweed (1987) earned a reported $7.3M worldwide against a reported $27.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$19.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.27x. In this database it currently ranks #8,615 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #90 among 1987 releases.

Worldwide gross
$7,300,000
Budget
$27,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$19,700,000
ROI
0.27x
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

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 18, 1987
Production
Taft Entertainment Pictures, Keith Barish Productions
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyTaft Entertainment Pictures Release year chart1987 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1987, Ironweed is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Taft Entertainment Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $7.3M, reported production budget is $27.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$19.7M, ROI is 0.27x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,615 all-time in the current chart set and #90 among 1987 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.