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#8,034 All-time worldwide
#206 2005 releases

Movie profile

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

2005 · 107 min · Why Not Productions

Drama Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $9.3M
Budget $6.4M
Gross minus budget $2.9M
ROI 1.45x

Domestic gross

$4.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$836,441

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Beat That My Heart Skipped 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 #8,034 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2005 releases #206 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2005. Studio / company #10 Why Not Productions of 13 titles Position inside the mapped Why Not Productions movie set. Primary genre #3,380 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.

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Quick answer

How did The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) earned a reported $9.3M worldwide against a reported $6.4M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $2.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.45x. In this database it currently ranks #8,034 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #206 among 2005 releases.

Worldwide gross
$9,293,785
Budget
$6,400,000
Gross minus budget
$2,893,785
ROI
1.45x
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 ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 16, 2005
Production
Why Not Productions, Sédif Productions, France 3 Cinéma
Countries
FR

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2005, The Beat That My Heart Skipped is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Crime title from Why Not Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $9.3M, reported production budget is $6.4M, gross-minus-budget is $2.9M, ROI is 1.45x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,034 all-time in the current chart set and #206 among 2005 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.