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#4,129 All-time worldwide
#90 2001 releases

Movie profile

Riding in Cars with Boys

2001 · 131 min · Columbia Pictures

Drama Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $35.7M
Budget $48.0M
Gross minus budget -$12.3M
ROI 0.74x

Domestic gross

$17.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$17.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$3.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Riding in Cars with Boys 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 #4,129 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2001 releases #90 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2001. Studio / company #153 Columbia Pictures of 272 titles Position inside the mapped Columbia Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,537 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.

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Quick answer

How did Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) earned a reported $35.7M worldwide against a reported $48.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$12.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.74x. In this database it currently ranks #4,129 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #90 among 2001 releases.

Worldwide gross
$35,700,000
Budget
$48,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$12,300,000
ROI
0.74x
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 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 19, 2001
Production
Columbia Pictures, Gracie Films
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyColumbia Pictures Release year chart2001 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2001, Riding in Cars with Boys is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy title from Columbia Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $35.7M, reported production budget is $48.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$12.3M, ROI is 0.74x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,129 all-time in the current chart set and #90 among 2001 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.