1990 The Fool Sands Films
#12,391 All-time worldwide
#188 1990 releases

Movie profile

The Fool

1990 · 140 min · Sands Films

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $79,139
Budget $7.6M
Gross minus budget -$7.5M
ROI 0.01x

Domestic gross

$39,570

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$39,569

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$7,123

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Fool 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 #12,391 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1990 releases #188 Release-year chart position of 205 titles Ranked against movies released in 1990. Primary genre #5,611 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.

#12,387 Meet the Feebles 1989 · $80,000 #12,387 Medium Rare 1991 · $80,000 #12,390 Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks 1974 · $79,201 #12,392 Mohamad Ali's Street 1991 · $79,000 #12,393 Me and Him 1988 · $78,814 #12,394 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 · $78,550

Quick answer

How did The Fool (1990) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

The Fool (1990) earned a reported $79.1K worldwide against a reported $7.6M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$7.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.01x. In this database it currently ranks #12,391 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #188 among 1990 releases.

Worldwide gross
$79,139
Budget
$7,600,000
Gross minus budget
-$7,520,861
ROI
0.01x
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 costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 7, 1990
Production
Sands Films, Film Four International, British Screen
Countries
GB

Related indexes

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Studio / production companySands Films Release year chart1990 box office Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1990, The Fool is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Sands Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $79,139, reported production budget is $7.6M, gross-minus-budget is -$7.5M, ROI is 0.01x. For comparison, it currently sits #12,391 all-time in the current chart set and #188 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.