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#5,604 All-time worldwide
#167 2009 releases

Movie profile

My Life in Ruins

2009 · 95 min · Fox Searchlight Pictures

Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $20.5M
Budget $17.0M
Gross minus budget $3.5M
ROI 1.20x

Domestic gross

$8.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where My Life in Ruins 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 #5,604 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #167 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #21 Fox Searchlight Pictures of 45 titles Position inside the mapped Fox Searchlight Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,194 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 My Life in Ruins (2009) perform at the box office?

High confidence

My Life in Ruins (2009) earned a reported $20.5M worldwide against a reported $17.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $3.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.20x. In this database it currently ranks #5,604 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #167 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$20,455,276
Budget
$17,000,000
Gross minus budget
$3,455,276
ROI
1.20x
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 Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 5, 2009
Production
Fox Searchlight Pictures, 26 Films
Countries
GR, US

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Studio / production companyFox Searchlight Pictures Release year chart2009 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartRomance

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, My Life in Ruins is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance title from Fox Searchlight Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $20.5M, reported production budget is $17.0M, gross-minus-budget is $3.5M, ROI is 1.20x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,604 all-time in the current chart set and #167 among 2009 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.