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#5,607 All-time worldwide
#62 1990 releases

Movie profile

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

1990 · 102 min · Silver Pictures

Comedy Crime Mystery Action
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $20.4M
Budget $49.0M
Gross minus budget -$28.6M
ROI 0.42x

Domestic gross

$8.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Adventures of Ford Fairlane 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 #5,607 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1990 releases #62 Release-year chart position of 205 titles Ranked against movies released in 1990. Studio / company #14 Silver Pictures of 17 titles Position inside the mapped Silver Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,197 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 The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) earned a reported $20.4M worldwide against a reported $49.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$28.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.42x. In this database it currently ranks #5,607 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #62 among 1990 releases.

Worldwide gross
$20,423,389
Budget
$49,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$28,576,611
ROI
0.42x
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

To the Los Angeles elite, Ford Fairlane is known as "Mr. Rock 'n' Roll Detective." This loudmouthed ladies' man serves an exclusive rock star clientele, who depend on his keen eye and smug discretion. So when a heavy-metal musician dies mid-concert, Fairlane is on the case before the lights come up. But things turn shocking when radio personality Johnny Crunch hires Fairlane to find a missing groupie mere hours before he is electrocuted live on air.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 11, 1990
Production
Silver Pictures, 20th Century Fox
Countries
US

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Studio / production companySilver Pictures Release year chart1990 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartCrime Genre chartMystery Genre chartAction

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1990, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Crime, Mystery title from Silver Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $20.4M, reported production budget is $49.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$28.6M, ROI is 0.42x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,607 all-time in the current chart set and #62 among 1990 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.