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#3,826 All-time worldwide
#28 1986 releases

Movie profile

Pretty in Pink

1986 · 97 min · Paramount Pictures

Romance Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $40.5M
Budget $9.0M
Gross minus budget $31.5M
ROI 4.50x

Domestic gross

$20.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$20.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Pretty in Pink 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 #3,826 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1986 releases #28 Release-year chart position of 206 titles Ranked against movies released in 1986. Studio / company #188 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #616 Romance of 2,607 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 Pretty in Pink (1986) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Pretty in Pink (1986) earned a reported $40.5M worldwide against a reported $9.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $31.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 4.50x. In this database it currently ranks #3,826 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #28 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$40,471,663
Budget
$9,000,000
Gross minus budget
$31,471,663
ROI
4.50x
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

Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 28, 1986
Production
Paramount Pictures, Hughes Entertainment
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1986 box office Genre chartRomance Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, Pretty in Pink is positioned in this dataset as a Romance, Drama title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $40.5M, reported production budget is $9.0M, gross-minus-budget is $31.5M, ROI is 4.50x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,826 all-time in the current chart set and #28 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.