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#5,504 All-time worldwide
#75 1992 releases

Movie profile

Kuffs

1992 · 102 min · Universal Pictures

Action Comedy Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $21.1M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget $11.1M
ROI 2.11x

Domestic gross

$8.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Kuffs 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 #5,504 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1992 releases #75 Release-year chart position of 235 titles Ranked against movies released in 1992. Studio / company #232 Universal Pictures of 377 titles Position inside the mapped Universal Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,661 Action of 2,939 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 Kuffs (1992) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Kuffs (1992) earned a reported $21.1M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $11.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.11x. In this database it currently ranks #5,504 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #75 among 1992 releases.

Worldwide gross
$21,142,815
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
$11,142,815
ROI
2.11x
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

George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George's brother Brad is killed and George inherits Brad's "patrol special" privatized police district and all the problems that come with it.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 10, 1992
Production
Universal Pictures, EvansGideon, Beginner's Luck
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyUniversal Pictures Release year chart1992 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartComedy Genre chartCrime

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1992, Kuffs is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Comedy, Crime title from Universal Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $21.1M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is $11.1M, ROI is 2.11x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,504 all-time in the current chart set and #75 among 1992 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.