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#10,396 All-time worldwide
#100 1983 releases

Movie profile

Screwballs

1983 · 80 min · Millenium

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.1M
Budget $800,000
Gross minus budget $1.3M
ROI 2.60x

Domestic gross

$832,886

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$233,208

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Screwballs 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 #10,396 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1983 releases #100 Release-year chart position of 150 titles Ranked against movies released in 1983. Primary genre #4,017 Comedy of 4,840 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.

#10,393 The Daytrippers 1997 · $2.1M #10,394 It Came from Hollywood 1982 · $2.1M #10,395 Strawberry and Chocolate 1993 · $2.1M #10,397 The Sheltering Sky 1990 · $2.1M #10,398 Pretty Poison 1968 · $2.1M #10,399 Ayurveda: Art of Being 2001 · $2.1M

Quick answer

How did Screwballs (1983) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Screwballs (1983) earned a reported $2.1M worldwide against a reported $800.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.60x. In this database it currently ranks #10,396 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #100 among 1983 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,082,215
Budget
$800,000
Gross minus budget
$1,282,215
ROI
2.60x
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

Welcome to T & A High, where the entire student body including campus virgin Purity Busch, chronic masturbator Melvin Jerkovski, repressed Principal Stuckoff and blonde bombshell Bootsie Goodhead all must rise to the challenges of freshman breast exams, bikini cheerleader attacks, inappropriate uses of bowling ball holes and much more.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 1, 1983
Production
Millenium, Canadian Film Development Corporation, Famous Players
Countries
CA

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1983, Screwballs is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Millenium. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.1M, reported production budget is $800,000, gross-minus-budget is $1.3M, ROI is 2.60x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,396 all-time in the current chart set and #100 among 1983 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.