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#5,169 All-time worldwide
#116 2001 releases

Movie profile

Life as a House

2001 · 125 min · New Line Cinema

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $23.9M
Budget $18.0M
Gross minus budget $5.9M
ROI 1.33x

Domestic gross

$12.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Life as a House 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 #5,169 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2001 releases #116 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2001. Studio / company #111 New Line Cinema of 178 titles Position inside the mapped New Line Cinema movie set. Primary genre #2,030 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.

#5,166 25th Hour 2002 · $23.9M #5,167 Tom and Huck 1995 · $23.9M #5,168 Mao’s Last Dancer 2009 · $23.9M #5,170 American History X 1998 · $23.9M #5,170 Stormbreaker 2006 · $23.9M #5,170 Birth 2004 · $23.9M

Quick answer

How did Life as a House (2001) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Life as a House (2001) earned a reported $23.9M worldwide against a reported $18.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $5.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.33x. In this database it currently ranks #5,169 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #116 among 2001 releases.

Worldwide gross
$23,903,791
Budget
$18,000,000
Gross minus budget
$5,903,791
ROI
1.33x
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

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 25, 2001
Production
New Line Cinema
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyNew Line Cinema Release year chart2001 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2001, Life as a House is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from New Line Cinema. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $23.9M, reported production budget is $18.0M, gross-minus-budget is $5.9M, ROI is 1.33x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,169 all-time in the current chart set and #116 among 2001 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.