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#8,314 All-time worldwide
#137 1995 releases

Movie profile

Smoke

1995 · 112 min · Miramax

Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.3M
Budget $7.0M
Gross minus budget $1.3M
ROI 1.19x

Domestic gross

$4.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$751,449

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Smoke 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 #8,314 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1995 releases #137 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1995. Studio / company #52 Miramax of 77 titles Position inside the mapped Miramax movie set. Franchise #1 Brooklyn Cigar Store of 2 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #3,243 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 Smoke (1995) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Smoke (1995) earned a reported $8.3M worldwide against a reported $7.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.19x. In this database it currently ranks #8,314 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #137 among 1995 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,349,430
Budget
$7,000,000
Gross minus budget
$1,349,430
ROI
1.19x
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

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 9, 1995
Production
Miramax, NDF International, Eurospace
Countries
DE, JP, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyMiramax FranchiseBrooklyn Cigar Store Release year chart1995 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1995, Smoke is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama title from Miramax. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.3M, reported production budget is $7.0M, gross-minus-budget is $1.3M, ROI is 1.19x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,314 all-time in the current chart set and #137 among 1995 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.