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#6,190 All-time worldwide
#145 2002 releases

Movie profile

Life or Something Like It

2002 · 103 min · Regency Enterprises

Comedy Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $16.9M
Budget $40.0M
Gross minus budget -$23.1M
ROI 0.42x

Domestic gross

$8.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$8.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Life or Something Like It 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 #6,190 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2002 releases #145 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2002. Studio / company #27 Regency Enterprises of 34 titles Position inside the mapped Regency Enterprises movie set. Primary genre #2,415 Comedy of 4,840 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 Life or Something Like It (2002) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Life or Something Like It (2002) earned a reported $16.9M worldwide against a reported $40.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$23.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.42x. In this database it currently ranks #6,190 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #145 among 2002 releases.

Worldwide gross
$16,872,671
Budget
$40,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$23,127,329
ROI
0.42x
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

A reporter Lanie Kerrigan interviews a psychic homeless man for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead he tells her that her life has no meaning and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life...

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 24, 2002
Production
Regency Enterprises, Davis Entertainment, New Regency Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyRegency Enterprises Release year chart2002 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama Genre chartRomance

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2002, Life or Something Like It is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama, Romance title from Regency Enterprises. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $16.9M, reported production budget is $40.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$23.1M, ROI is 0.42x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,190 all-time in the current chart set and #145 among 2002 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.