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#11,848 All-time worldwide
#226 1997 releases

Movie profile

Telling Lies in America

1997 · 101 min · Kuzui Enterprises

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $318,809
Budget $4.0M
Gross minus budget -$3.7M
ROI 0.08x

Domestic gross

$159,405

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$159,404

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$28,693

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Telling Lies in America 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 #11,848 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1997 releases #226 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 1997. Studio / company #3 Kuzui Enterprises of 4 titles Position inside the mapped Kuzui Enterprises movie set. Primary genre #5,314 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.

#11,845 Ambitious Kung Fu Girl 1981 · $320,303 #11,846 TerrorVision 1986 · $320,256 #11,847 Trading Mom 1994 · $319,123 #11,849 Onofre 1974 · $317,000 #11,850 El rollo de septiembre 1985 · $316,326 #11,851 Promised Land 1988 · $316,000

Quick answer

How did Telling Lies in America (1997) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Telling Lies in America (1997) earned a reported $318.8K worldwide against a reported $4.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$3.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.08x. In this database it currently ranks #11,848 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #226 among 1997 releases.

Worldwide gross
$318,809
Budget
$4,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$3,681,191
ROI
0.08x
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

A 17-year-old boy becomes friends with Billy Magic, the radio DJ he idolizes, and eventually slips into the payola and corruption of the entertainment world.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 2, 1997
Production
Kuzui Enterprises, Banner Entertainment, Ben Myron Productions
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyKuzui Enterprises Release year chart1997 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1997, Telling Lies in America is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Kuzui Enterprises. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $318,809, reported production budget is $4.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$3.7M, ROI is 0.08x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,848 all-time in the current chart set and #226 among 1997 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.