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#6,595 All-time worldwide
#89 1992 releases

Movie profile

School Ties

1992 · 106 min · Paramount Pictures

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $14.7M
Budget $18.0M
Gross minus budget -$3.3M
ROI 0.82x

Domestic gross

$7.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$7.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where School Ties 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 #6,595 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1992 releases #89 Release-year chart position of 235 titles Ranked against movies released in 1992. Studio / company #269 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,719 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 School Ties (1992) perform at the box office?

High confidence

School Ties (1992) earned a reported $14.7M worldwide against a reported $18.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$3.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.82x. In this database it currently ranks #6,595 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #89 among 1992 releases.

Worldwide gross
$14,700,000
Budget
$18,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$3,300,000
ROI
0.82x
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

When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 18, 1992
Production
Paramount Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1992 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1992, School Ties is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $14.7M, reported production budget is $18.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$3.3M, ROI is 0.82x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,595 all-time in the current chart set and #89 among 1992 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.