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#8,509 All-time worldwide
#185 2002 releases

Movie profile

Real Women Have Curves

2002 · 86 min · La Voo Productions

Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $7.7M
Budget $3.0M
Gross minus budget $4.7M
ROI 2.57x

Domestic gross

$3.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$693,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Real Women Have Curves 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 #8,509 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2002 releases #185 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2002. Primary genre #3,315 Comedy of 4,840 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

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Quick answer

How did Real Women Have Curves (2002) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Real Women Have Curves (2002) earned a reported $7.7M worldwide against a reported $3.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $4.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.57x. In this database it currently ranks #8,509 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #185 among 2002 releases.

Worldwide gross
$7,700,000
Budget
$3,000,000
Gross minus budget
$4,700,000
ROI
2.57x
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

In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 18, 2002
Production
LaVoo Productions, HBO Films
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyLa Voo Productions Release year chart2002 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2002, Real Women Have Curves is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama title from LaVoo Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $7.7M, reported production budget is $3.0M, gross-minus-budget is $4.7M, ROI is 2.57x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,509 all-time in the current chart set and #185 among 2002 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.