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#9,215 All-time worldwide
#122 1990 releases

Movie profile

The Handmaid's Tale

1990 · 108 min · Cinecom Entertainment Group

Drama Science Fiction
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $5.0M
Budget $13.0M
Gross minus budget -$8.0M
ROI 0.38x

Domestic gross

$2.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$446,435

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Handmaid's Tale 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 #9,215 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1990 releases #122 Release-year chart position of 205 titles Ranked against movies released in 1990. Studio / company #1 Cinecom Entertainment Group of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Cinecom Entertainment Group movie set. Primary genre #3,955 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 Handmaid's Tale (1990) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Handmaid's Tale (1990) earned a reported $5.0M worldwide against a reported $13.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$8.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.38x. In this database it currently ranks #9,215 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #122 among 1990 releases.

Worldwide gross
$4,960,385
Budget
$13,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$8,039,615
ROI
0.38x
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

In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 15, 1990
Production
Cinecom Entertainment Group, Cinetudes Films, Neue Bioskop Film
Countries
DE, US

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Studio / production companyCinecom Entertainment Group Release year chart1990 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartScience Fiction

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1990, The Handmaid's Tale is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Science Fiction title from Cinecom Entertainment Group. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $5.0M, reported production budget is $13.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$8.0M, ROI is 0.38x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,215 all-time in the current chart set and #122 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.