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#5,929 All-time worldwide
#60 1989 releases

Movie profile

The Fabulous Baker Boys

1989 · 114 min · Gladden Entertainment

Comedy Drama Music Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $18.4M
Budget $13.0M
Gross minus budget $5.4M
ROI 1.42x

Domestic gross

$9.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Fabulous Baker Boys 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 #5,929 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #60 Release-year chart position of 218 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Studio / company #3 Gladden Entertainment of 7 titles Position inside the mapped Gladden Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #2,317 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.

#5,926 Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound 1993 · $18.4M #5,927 Summer Wars 2009 · $18.4M #5,928 Ladyhawke 1985 · $18.4M #5,930 Love Reset 2023 · $18.4M #5,931 Repo Men 2010 · $18.4M #5,932 De-Lovely 2004 · $18.4M

Quick answer

How did The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) earned a reported $18.4M worldwide against a reported $13.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $5.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.42x. In this database it currently ranks #5,929 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #60 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross
$18,428,904
Budget
$13,000,000
Gross minus budget
$5,428,904
ROI
1.42x
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

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 13, 1989
Production
Gladden Entertainment, Mirage Enterprises
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyGladden Entertainment Release year chart1989 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama Genre chartMusic Genre chartRomance

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, The Fabulous Baker Boys is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama, Music title from Gladden Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $18.4M, reported production budget is $13.0M, gross-minus-budget is $5.4M, ROI is 1.42x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,929 all-time in the current chart set and #60 among 1989 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.