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#5,598 All-time worldwide
#179 2013 releases

Movie profile

My Mom Is a Character

2013 · 84 min · Cenoura Filmes

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $20.6M
Budget $2.0M
Gross minus budget $18.6M
ROI 10.28x

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 Mom Is a Character 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 #5,598 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2013 releases #179 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 2013. Franchise #3 My Mom Is A Character of 3 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #2,191 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 Mom Is a Character (2013) perform at the box office?

High confidence

My Mom Is a Character (2013) earned a reported $20.6M worldwide against a reported $2.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $18.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 10.28x. In this database it currently ranks #5,598 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #179 among 2013 releases.

Worldwide gross
$20,552,094
Budget
$2,000,000
Gross minus budget
$18,552,094
ROI
10.28x
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 another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 21, 2013
Production
Cenoura Filmes, Globo Filmes, Migdal Filmes
Countries
BR

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Studio / production companyCenoura Filmes FranchiseMy Mom Is A Character Release year chart2013 box office Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2013, My Mom Is a Character is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Cenoura Filmes. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $20.6M, reported production budget is $2.0M, gross-minus-budget is $18.6M, ROI is 10.28x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,598 all-time in the current chart set and #179 among 2013 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.