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#5,037 All-time worldwide
#90 1997 releases

Movie profile

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

1997 · 155 min · Warner Bros. Pictures

Mystery Crime Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $25.1M
Budget $35.0M
Gross minus budget -$9.9M
ROI 0.72x

Domestic gross

$12.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 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 #5,037 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1997 releases #90 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 1997. Studio / company #143 Warner Bros. Pictures of 288 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Bros. Pictures movie set. Primary genre #405 Mystery of 951 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 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) earned a reported $25.1M worldwide against a reported $35.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$9.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.72x. In this database it currently ranks #5,037 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #90 among 1997 releases.

Worldwide gross
$25,100,000
Budget
$35,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$9,900,000
ROI
0.72x
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 visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 21, 1997
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures, Malpaso Productions, Silver Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyWarner Bros. Pictures Release year chart1997 box office Genre chartMystery Genre chartCrime Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1997, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is positioned in this dataset as a Mystery, Crime, Drama title from Warner Bros. Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $25.1M, reported production budget is $35.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$9.9M, ROI is 0.72x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,037 all-time in the current chart set and #90 among 1997 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.