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#6,558 All-time worldwide
#117 1999 releases

Movie profile

Music of the Heart

1999 · 124 min · Craven Maddalena Films

Drama Music
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $14.9M
Budget $27.0M
Gross minus budget -$12.1M
ROI 0.55x

Domestic gross

$7.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$7.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Music of the Heart 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 #6,558 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #117 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Primary genre #2,697 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.

#6,555 Raise Your Voice 2004 · $14.9M #6,556 Josie and the Pussycats 2001 · $14.9M #6,557 All of Us Strangers 2023 · $14.9M #6,559 Emperor 2012 · $14.9M #6,560 Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Art World Tales 2025 · $14.8M #6,561 The Little Polar Bear 2001 · $14.8M

Quick answer

How did Music of the Heart (1999) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Music of the Heart (1999) earned a reported $14.9M worldwide against a reported $27.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$12.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.55x. In this database it currently ranks #6,558 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #117 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$14,859,394
Budget
$27,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$12,140,606
ROI
0.55x
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

After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 29, 1999
Production
Craven-Maddalena Films, Miramax
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyCraven Maddalena Films Release year chart1999 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartMusic

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, Music of the Heart is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Music title from Craven-Maddalena Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $14.9M, reported production budget is $27.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$12.1M, ROI is 0.55x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,558 all-time in the current chart set and #117 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.