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#7,079 All-time worldwide
#198 2012 releases

Movie profile

People Like Us

2012 · 114 min · Dream Works Pictures

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $12.4M
Budget $16.0M
Gross minus budget -$3.6M
ROI 0.78x

Domestic gross

$6.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where People Like Us 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 #7,079 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2012 releases #198 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2012. Studio / company #52 Dream Works Pictures of 55 titles Position inside the mapped Dream Works Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,941 Drama of 5,859 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 People Like Us (2012) perform at the box office?

High confidence

People Like Us (2012) earned a reported $12.4M worldwide against a reported $16.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$3.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.78x. In this database it currently ranks #7,079 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #198 among 2012 releases.

Worldwide gross
$12,434,778
Budget
$16,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$3,565,222
ROI
0.78x
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 flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 29, 2012
Production
DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, K/O Paper Products
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyDream Works Pictures Release year chart2012 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2012, People Like Us is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from DreamWorks Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $12.4M, reported production budget is $16.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$3.6M, ROI is 0.78x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,079 all-time in the current chart set and #198 among 2012 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.