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#9,979 All-time worldwide
#179 1999 releases

Movie profile

Love Stinks

1999 · 94 min · Box Office Data

Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.9M
Budget $4.0M
Gross minus budget -$1.1M
ROI 0.73x

Domestic gross

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$327,559

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Love Stinks 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 #9,979 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #179 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Primary genre #3,862 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.

#9,976 Shattered Glass 2002 · $2.9M #9,977 Shattered Glass 2003 · $2.9M #9,978 Diva 1981 · $2.9M #9,980 Made in Italy 2020 · $2.9M #9,981 Homework 1982 · $2.9M #9,982 A Better Tomorrow II 1987 · $2.9M

Quick answer

How did Love Stinks (1999) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Love Stinks (1999) earned a reported $2.9M worldwide against a reported $4.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$1.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.73x. In this database it currently ranks #9,979 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #179 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,924,635
Budget
$4,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$1,075,365
ROI
0.73x
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 movie about a relationship...that's worse than yours. Seth (Stewart), a sitcom writer-producer, meets Chelsea (Wilson), an interior decorator, at his best friend's (Bellamy) wedding. He's immediately sexually attracted to her while she's instantly attracted to his single-ness. They both ditch their wedding dates and start their own date that same night. The two become a couple, appearing very happy until after a couple of years of postponing a marriage proposal. When Chelsea realizes that Seth wants to remain single and together, she becomes quite bitter. In the next hour of the movie, the two engage in behavior that makes the War of the Roses look like child's play.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 10, 1999
Production
Box Office Data
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, Love Stinks is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance title. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.9M, reported production budget is $4.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$1.1M, ROI is 0.73x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,979 all-time in the current chart set and #179 among 1999 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.