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#5,090 All-time worldwide
#51 1989 releases

Movie profile

sex, lies, and videotape

1989 · 101 min · Outlaw Productions

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $24.7M
Budget $1.2M
Gross minus budget $23.5M
ROI 20.62x

Domestic gross

$12.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where sex, lies, and videotape 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 #5,090 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #51 Release-year chart position of 218 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Studio / company #1 Outlaw Productions of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Outlaw Productions movie set. Primary genre #1,983 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

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Quick answer

How did sex, lies, and videotape (1989) perform at the box office?

High confidence

sex, lies, and videotape (1989) earned a reported $24.7M worldwide against a reported $1.2M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $23.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 20.62x. In this database it currently ranks #5,090 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #51 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross
$24,741,667
Budget
$1,200,000
Gross minus budget
$23,541,667
ROI
20.62x
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

Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 4, 1989
Production
Outlaw Productions
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyOutlaw Productions Release year chart1989 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, sex, lies, and videotape is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Outlaw Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $24.7M, reported production budget is $1.2M, gross-minus-budget is $23.5M, ROI is 20.62x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,090 all-time in the current chart set and #51 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.