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#12,222 All-time worldwide
#143 1982 releases

Movie profile

Love Child

1982 · 96 min · The Ladd Company

Romance Drama Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $112,940
Budget $50,091
Gross minus budget $62,849
ROI 2.25x

Domestic gross

$56,470

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$56,470

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$10,165

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Love Child 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 #12,222 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1982 releases #143 Release-year chart position of 157 titles Ranked against movies released in 1982. Studio / company #14 The Ladd Company of 14 titles Position inside the mapped The Ladd Company movie set. Primary genre #2,490 Romance of 2,607 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.

#12,219 Hanna K. 1983 · $114,247 #12,220 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1973 · $113,606 #12,221 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie 1998 · $113,484 #12,223 Arizona Dream 1993 · $112,547 #12,224 Biggles 1986 · $112,132 #12,225 Fire Piece 1971 · $110,750

Quick answer

How did Love Child (1982) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Love Child (1982) earned a reported $112.9K worldwide against a reported $50.1K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $62.8K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.25x. In this database it currently ranks #12,222 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #143 among 1982 releases.

Worldwide gross
$112,940
Budget
$50,091
Gross minus budget
$62,849
ROI
2.25x
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

The true story of Terry Jean Moore, a young woman who is imprisoned for seven years on account of a "five-dollar" robbery. While in prison, she gets pregnant by a jailer and must fight to keep her child.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 15, 1982
Production
The Ladd Company
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1982, Love Child is positioned in this dataset as a Romance, Drama, Crime title from The Ladd Company. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $112,940, reported production budget is $50,091, gross-minus-budget is $62,849, ROI is 2.25x. For comparison, it currently sits #12,222 all-time in the current chart set and #143 among 1982 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.