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#12,089 All-time worldwide
#210 1988 releases

Movie profile

Rocket Gibraltar

1988 · 99 min · Columbia Pictures

Drama Family
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $187,349
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$80,560

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$106,789

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$24,168

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Rocket Gibraltar 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 #12,089 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1988 releases #210 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1988. Studio / company #263 Columbia Pictures of 272 titles Position inside the mapped Columbia Pictures movie set. Primary genre #5,451 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.

#12,085 Carry On at Your Convenience 1971 · $190,000 #12,087 The Ride 1997 · $189,635 #12,088 Miles from Home 1988 · $188,964 #12,090 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 · $186,757 #12,091 Murder in the Central Committee 1982 · $185,916 #12,092 The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1995 · $185,898

Quick answer

How did Rocket Gibraltar (1988) perform at the box office?

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Rocket Gibraltar (1988) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $187.3K. In this database it currently ranks #12,089 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #210 among 1988 releases.

Worldwide gross
$187,349
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

A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. However, he connects with his grandchildren. And he tells them what he wants for his birthday and they do what they can to give it to him.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 2, 1988
Production
Columbia Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyColumbia Pictures Release year chart1988 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartFamily

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1988, Rocket Gibraltar is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Family title from Columbia Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $187,349. For comparison, it currently sits #12,089 all-time in the current chart set and #210 among 1988 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.