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#5,672 All-time worldwide
#64 1990 releases

Movie profile

Taking Care of Business

1990 · 108 min · Silver Screen Partners

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $20.0M
Budget $14.0M
Gross minus budget $6.0M
ROI 1.43x

Domestic gross

$8.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Taking Care of Business 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 #5,672 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1990 releases #64 Release-year chart position of 205 titles Ranked against movies released in 1990. Primary genre #2,221 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.

#5,669 Evening 2007 · $20.0M #5,670 With Honors 1994 · $20.0M #5,671 The Company You Keep 2012 · $20.0M #5,705 Like Father, Like Son 2013 · $20.0M #5,706 Unfaithfully Yours 1984 · $19.9M #5,707 Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever 2002 · $19.9M

Quick answer

How did Taking Care of Business (1990) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Taking Care of Business (1990) earned a reported $20.0M worldwide against a reported $14.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $6.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.43x. In this database it currently ranks #5,672 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #64 among 1990 releases.

Worldwide gross
$20,000,000
Budget
$14,000,000
Gross minus budget
$6,000,000
ROI
1.43x
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

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 16, 1990
Production
Silver Screen Partners, Hollywood Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companySilver Screen Partners Release year chart1990 box office Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1990, Taking Care of Business is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Silver Screen Partners. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $20.0M, reported production budget is $14.0M, gross-minus-budget is $6.0M, ROI is 1.43x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,672 all-time in the current chart set and #64 among 1990 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.