Box office snapshot
Financial performance
Reference figures based on available reported data.Domestic gross
$4.7M
Estimated from worldwide grossInternational gross
$6.2M
Estimated from worldwide grossOpening weekend
$1.4M
Estimated from worldwide grossRanking context
Where Leave It to Beaver ranks
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Quick answer
How did Leave It to Beaver (1997) perform at the box office?
High confidenceLeave It to Beaver (1997) earned a reported $10.9M worldwide against a reported $15.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$4.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.73x. In this database it currently ranks #7,494 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #123 among 1997 releases.
- Worldwide gross
- $10,925,060
- Budget
- $15,000,000
- Gross minus budget
- -$4,074,940
- ROI
- 0.73x
Synopsis
Story
The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio – wise father Ward, loving mother June, teenage son Wally, and 8-year-old Theodore, better known as 'Beaver'. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school football team and he makes it, only to be embarrassed. The bike he gets is quickly stolen. Meanwhile, Wally is trying to help his friend Eddie Haskell to get the heart of pretty classmate Karen, but Karen seems to like Wally more, and that leads to tensions between the friends.
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Why this movie matters
Released in 1997, Leave It to Beaver is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Family title from Universal Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.9M, reported production budget is $15.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$4.1M, ROI is 0.73x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,494 all-time in the current chart set and #123 among 1997 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.
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