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#5,867 All-time worldwide
#56 1987 releases

Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $18.8M
Budget
Gross minus budget
ROI

Domestic gross

$9.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Suspect ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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Quick answer

How did Suspect (1987) perform at the box office?

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Suspect (1987) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $18.8M. In this database it currently ranks #5,867 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #56 among 1987 releases.

Worldwide gross
$18,782,400
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

When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 23, 1987
Production
ML Delphi Premier Productions, TriStar Pictures
Countries
US

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1987, Suspect is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Drama, Thriller title from ML Delphi Premier Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $18.8M. For comparison, it currently sits #5,867 all-time in the current chart set and #56 among 1987 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.