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#11,781 All-time worldwide
#178 1986 releases

Movie profile

Positive I.D.

1986 · 95 min · Andersonfilm

Drama Crime Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $371,000
Budget $200,000
Gross minus budget $171,000
ROI 1.86x

Domestic gross

$185,500

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$185,500

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$33,390

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Positive I.D. 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 #11,781 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1986 releases #178 Release-year chart position of 206 titles Ranked against movies released in 1986. Primary genre #5,282 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.

#11,778 Cut and Run 1985 · $373,530 #11,779 Wake in Fright 1971 · $371,717 #11,780 The Star Maker 1995 · $371,674 #11,782 Open Your Eyes 1997 · $370,720 #11,783 Gandahar 1987 · $370,698 #11,784 The Minus Man 1999 · $370,668

Quick answer

How did Positive I.D. (1986) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Positive I.D. (1986) earned a reported $371.0K worldwide against a reported $200.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $171.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.86x. In this database it currently ranks #11,781 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #178 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$371,000
Budget
$200,000
Gross minus budget
$171,000
ROI
1.86x
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 year after she is brutally raped, Dallas housewife Julie Kenner still can't shake the horror of the attack. She decides to forge a series of separate identities for herself, borrowing the names and birth dates of various strangers.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 28, 1986
Production
Andersonfilm
Countries
US

Related indexes

Browse related box office pages

Studio / production companyAndersonfilm Release year chart1986 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartCrime Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, Positive I.D. is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Crime, Thriller title from Andersonfilm. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $371,000, reported production budget is $200,000, gross-minus-budget is $171,000, ROI is 1.86x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,781 all-time in the current chart set and #178 among 1986 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.