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#9,020 All-time worldwide
#84 1982 releases

Movie profile

Personal Best

1982 · 124 min · Geffen Pictures

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $5.7M
Budget $16.0M
Gross minus budget -$10.3M
ROI 0.36x

Domestic gross

$2.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$513,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Personal Best 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 #9,020 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1982 releases #84 Release-year chart position of 157 titles Ranked against movies released in 1982. Studio / company #9 Geffen Pictures of 12 titles Position inside the mapped Geffen Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,857 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 Personal Best (1982) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Personal Best (1982) earned a reported $5.7M worldwide against a reported $16.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$10.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.36x. In this database it currently ranks #9,020 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #84 among 1982 releases.

Worldwide gross
$5,700,000
Budget
$16,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$10,300,000
ROI
0.36x
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

Young sprinter Chris Cahill is having difficulty reaching her potential as an athlete, until she meets established track star Tory Skinner. As Tory and her coach help Chris with her training, the two women form friendship that evolves into a romantic relationship. Their intimacy, however, becomes complicated when Chris' improvement causes them to be competitors for the Olympic team.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 5, 1982
Production
Geffen Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyGeffen Pictures Release year chart1982 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1982, Personal Best is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Geffen Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $5.7M, reported production budget is $16.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$10.3M, ROI is 0.36x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,020 all-time in the current chart set and #84 among 1982 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.