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#11,020 All-time worldwide
#163 1990 releases

Movie profile

Slacker

1990 · 97 min · Detour Filmproduction

Drama Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.2M
Budget $23,000
Gross minus budget $1.2M
ROI 53.40x

Domestic gross

$614,054

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$614,054

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$110,530

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Slacker 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 #11,020 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1990 releases #163 Release-year chart position of 205 titles Ranked against movies released in 1990. Studio / company #2 Detour Filmproduction of 3 titles Position inside the mapped Detour Filmproduction movie set. Primary genre #4,860 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.

#11,017 All Ladies Do It 1992 · $1.2M #11,017 Al Sharida 1980 · $1.2M #11,019 Toto the Hero 1991 · $1.2M #11,021 The Funeral 1996 · $1.2M #11,022 The Third Man 1949 · $1.2M #11,023 Reine & Mimmi i fjällen! 1997 · $1.2M

Quick answer

How did Slacker (1990) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Slacker (1990) earned a reported $1.2M worldwide against a reported $23.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 53.40x. In this database it currently ranks #11,020 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #163 among 1990 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,228,108
Budget
$23,000
Gross minus budget
$1,205,108
ROI
53.40x
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

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 27, 1990
Production
Detour Filmproduction
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyDetour Filmproduction Release year chart1990 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1990, Slacker is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy title from Detour Filmproduction. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.2M, reported production budget is $23,000, gross-minus-budget is $1.2M, ROI is 53.40x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,020 all-time in the current chart set and #163 among 1990 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.