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#9,251 All-time worldwide
#114 1986 releases

Movie profile

Off Beat

1986 · 92 min · Touchstone Pictures

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $4.8M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget -$5.2M
ROI 0.48x

Domestic gross

$1.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$542,391

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Off Beat 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 #9,251 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1986 releases #114 Release-year chart position of 206 titles Ranked against movies released in 1986. Studio / company #102 Touchstone Pictures of 113 titles Position inside the mapped Touchstone Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,598 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 Off Beat (1986) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Off Beat (1986) earned a reported $4.8M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$5.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.48x. In this database it currently ranks #9,251 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #114 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$4,842,778
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$5,157,222
ROI
0.48x
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

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 10, 1986
Production
Touchstone Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

Browse related box office pages

Studio / production companyTouchstone Pictures Release year chart1986 box office Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, Off Beat is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Touchstone Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $4.8M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$5.2M, ROI is 0.48x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,251 all-time in the current chart set and #114 among 1986 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.