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#10,649 All-time worldwide
#142 1987 releases

Movie profile

Personal Services

1987 · 105 min · British Screen Productions

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.7M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$697,666

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$195,346

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Personal Services 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 #10,649 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1987 releases #142 Release-year chart position of 235 titles Ranked against movies released in 1987. Studio / company #3 British Screen Productions of 6 titles Position inside the mapped British Screen Productions movie set. Primary genre #4,107 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.

#10,646 Vanya on 42nd Street 1994 · $1.7M #10,647 Everybody's Fine 1990 · $1.7M #10,648 The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy 2000 · $1.7M #10,650 To musi być miłość 2021 · $1.7M #10,651 The Horror Show 1989 · $1.7M #10,652 The City of Lost Children 1995 · $1.7M

Quick answer

How did Personal Services (1987) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Personal Services (1987) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $1.7M. In this database it currently ranks #10,649 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #142 among 1987 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,744,164
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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

Fed up with working hard just to scrape by, Christine Painter comes up with a bold plan to become the madam of a brothel and earn her financial freedom: she opens a house of spanking to fabulous reviews.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 12, 1987
Production
British Screen Productions, Zenith Entertainment, United International Pictures
Countries
GB

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyBritish Screen Productions Release year chart1987 box office Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1987, Personal Services is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from British Screen Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.7M. For comparison, it currently sits #10,649 all-time in the current chart set and #142 among 1987 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.