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#11,910 All-time worldwide
#79 1978 releases

Movie profile

Playing Parents

1978 · 83 min · Box Office Data

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $278,920
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$111,568

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$167,352

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$31,239

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Playing Parents ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #11,910 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1978 releases #79 Release-year chart position of 89 titles Ranked against movies released in 1978. Primary genre #4,528 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 Parents (1978) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Playing Parents (1978) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $278.9K. In this database it currently ranks #11,910 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #79 among 1978 releases.

Worldwide gross
$278,920
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

Leonor and Juan are a united couple of good standing that cannot have children. They want to adopt one but do not succeed because he is too old. Leonor proposes Juan an audacious plan: having a child with another woman, offering her a significant amount of money if she renunciates to the child. As it is very difficult to find the girl, they publish an advertisement in the press. Ana finally applies, as she has no job and lives far away from his family, so she accepts the deal.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 1, 1978
Production
Box Office Data
Countries
ES

Related indexes

Browse related box office pages

Release year chart1978 box office Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1978, Playing Parents is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $278,920. For comparison, it currently sits #11,910 all-time in the current chart set and #79 among 1978 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.