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#5,099 All-time worldwide
#41 1985 releases

Movie profile

Summer Rental

1985 · 87 min · Paramount Pictures

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $24.7M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$9.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$14.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Summer Rental 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 #5,099 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1985 releases #41 Release-year chart position of 184 titles Ranked against movies released in 1985. Studio / company #224 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,996 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 Summer Rental (1985) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Summer Rental (1985) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $24.7M. In this database it currently ranks #5,099 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #41 among 1985 releases.

Worldwide gross
$24,689,704
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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

Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 9, 1985
Production
Paramount Pictures, St. Petersburg Clearwater Film Commision, Bernie Brillstein Productions
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1985 box office Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1985, Summer Rental is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $24.7M. For comparison, it currently sits #5,099 all-time in the current chart set and #41 among 1985 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.