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#4,515 All-time worldwide
#142 2012 releases

Movie profile

Playing for Keeps

2012 · 106 min · Evil Twins

Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $31.0M
Budget $35.0M
Gross minus budget -$4.0M
ROI 0.88x

Domestic gross

$12.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$18.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Playing for Keeps ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #4,515 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2012 releases #142 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2012. Primary genre #1,730 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 Playing for Keeps (2012) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Playing for Keeps (2012) earned a reported $31.0M worldwide against a reported $35.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$4.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.88x. In this database it currently ranks #4,515 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #142 among 2012 releases.

Worldwide gross
$30,962,335
Budget
$35,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$4,037,665
ROI
0.88x
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 former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 29, 2012
Production
Evil Twins, Millennium Media, Eclectic Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyEvil Twins Release year chart2012 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartRomance

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2012, Playing for Keeps is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance title from Evil Twins. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $31.0M, reported production budget is $35.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$4.0M, ROI is 0.88x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,515 all-time in the current chart set and #142 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.