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#10,439 All-time worldwide
#181 1997 releases

Movie profile

Paradise Road

1997 · 122 min · Samson Productions

War Drama History
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.0M
Budget $16.0M
Gross minus budget -$14.0M
ROI 0.13x

Domestic gross

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$180,639

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Paradise Road 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 #10,439 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1997 releases #181 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 1997. Studio / company #2 Samson Productions of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Samson Productions movie set. Primary genre #384 War of 483 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 Paradise Road (1997) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Paradise Road (1997) earned a reported $2.0M worldwide against a reported $16.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$14.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.13x. In this database it currently ranks #10,439 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #181 among 1997 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,007,100
Budget
$16,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$13,992,900
ROI
0.13x
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 group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 11, 1997
Production
Samson Productions, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Village Roadshow
Countries
AU, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1997, Paradise Road is positioned in this dataset as a War, Drama, History title from Samson Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.0M, reported production budget is $16.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$14.0M, ROI is 0.13x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,439 all-time in the current chart set and #181 among 1997 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.