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#6,454 All-time worldwide
#197 2009 releases

Movie profile

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

2009 · 89 min · Kevin Messick Productions

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.3M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget $5.3M
ROI 1.53x

Domestic gross

$6.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 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 #6,454 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #197 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #2 Kevin Messick Productions of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Kevin Messick Productions movie set. Primary genre #2,510 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.

#6,451 Hair 1979 · $15.3M #6,452 The Fountain 2006 · $15.3M #6,453 Shanghai 2010 · $15.3M #6,461 Ida 2013 · $15.3M #6,462 Primeval 2007 · $15.3M #6,463 Magadheera 2009 · $15.3M

Quick answer

How did The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) earned a reported $15.3M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $5.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.53x. In this database it currently ranks #6,454 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #197 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,300,000
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
$5,300,000
ROI
1.53x
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

Don Ready is many things, but he is best-known as an extraordinary salesman. When a car dealership in Temecula teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, he and his ragtag team dive in to save the day. But what Ready doesn't count on is falling in love and finding his soul.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 29, 2009
Production
Kevin Messick Productions, Paramount Vantage, Gary Sanchez Productions
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Kevin Messick Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.3M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is $5.3M, ROI is 1.53x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,454 all-time in the current chart set and #197 among 2009 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.