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#3,489 All-time worldwide
#34 1989 releases

Movie profile

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

1989 · 102 min · Tri Star Pictures

Comedy Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $46.9M
Budget $18.0M
Gross minus budget $28.9M
ROI 2.61x

Domestic gross

$18.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$28.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$5.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where See No Evil, Hear No Evil 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 #3,489 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #34 Release-year chart position of 218 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Studio / company #24 Tri Star Pictures of 96 titles Position inside the mapped Tri Star Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,316 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.

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Quick answer

How did See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) perform at the box office?

High confidence

See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) earned a reported $46.9M worldwide against a reported $18.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $28.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.61x. In this database it currently ranks #3,489 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #34 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross
$46,900,000
Budget
$18,000,000
Gross minus budget
$28,900,000
ROI
2.61x
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 murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot, but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 12, 1989
Production
TriStar Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyTri Star Pictures Release year chart1989 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartCrime

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, See No Evil, Hear No Evil is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Crime title from TriStar Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $46.9M, reported production budget is $18.0M, gross-minus-budget is $28.9M, ROI is 2.61x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,489 all-time in the current chart set and #34 among 1989 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.