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#8,638 All-time worldwide
#90 1986 releases

Movie profile

The Family Strikes Back

1986 · 86 min · Cinema City Company Limited (Hong Kong)

Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $7.2M
Budget
Gross minus budget
ROI

Domestic gross

$2.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$809,706

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Family Strikes Back ranks

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How did The Family Strikes Back (1986) perform at the box office?

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The Family Strikes Back (1986) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $7.2M. In this database it currently ranks #8,638 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #90 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$7,229,517
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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

Professor Kiu is a mad scientist who developed mental disorders from grieving the death of his son. Kiu orders his assistants to kidnap men to his lab, located in a private container on a vessel, for experiments. Police inspector Uncle Wah had sent his subordinates to gather evidence in the vessel, but failed to find any. Shek La-mai, an acrobatic performer and a former commander of the Special Duties Unit is a single father of three children. One night during a performance with his protege, Lam Hong, witnessed and intervened in a kidnapping incident by Kiu's henchmen, and the two became targets of Kiu. On the other hand, Uncle Wah discovers Shek's resemblance to a Japanese scientist named Toyota, who colluded with Kiu. Wah formulates a plan for Shek to act undercover as Toyota in order to gather evidence from Kiu's lab.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 27, 1986
Production
Cinema City Company Limited (Hong Kong)
Countries
HK

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, The Family Strikes Back is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Cinema City Company Limited (Hong Kong). Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $7.2M. For comparison, it currently sits #8,638 all-time in the current chart set and #90 among 1986 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.