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#5,084 All-time worldwide
#165 2011 releases

Movie profile

Our Idiot Brother

2011 · 90 min · Big Beach

Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $24.8M
Budget $5.0M
Gross minus budget $19.8M
ROI 4.96x

Domestic gross

$12.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Our Idiot Brother 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 #5,084 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2011 releases #165 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2011. Studio / company #2 Big Beach of 5 titles Position inside the mapped Big Beach movie set. Primary genre #1,991 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 Our Idiot Brother (2011) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Our Idiot Brother (2011) earned a reported $24.8M worldwide against a reported $5.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $19.8M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 4.96x. In this database it currently ranks #5,084 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #165 among 2011 releases.

Worldwide gross
$24,816,118
Budget
$5,000,000
Gross minus budget
$19,816,118
ROI
4.96x
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

Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realise that Ned isn't such an idiot after all.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 26, 2011
Production
Big Beach, Likely Story, Yuk Films
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyBig Beach Release year chart2011 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2011, Our Idiot Brother is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama title from Big Beach. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $24.8M, reported production budget is $5.0M, gross-minus-budget is $19.8M, ROI is 4.96x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,084 all-time in the current chart set and #165 among 2011 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.