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#8,166 All-time worldwide
#119 1994 releases

Movie profile

The Inkwell

1994 · 110 min · Touchstone Pictures

Comedy Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.9M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$4.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$799,264

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Inkwell 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 #8,166 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1994 releases #119 Release-year chart position of 238 titles Ranked against movies released in 1994. Studio / company #94 Touchstone Pictures of 113 titles Position inside the mapped Touchstone Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,183 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.

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Quick answer

How did The Inkwell (1994) perform at the box office?

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The Inkwell (1994) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $8.9M. In this database it currently ranks #8,166 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #119 among 1994 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,880,705
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

The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 22, 1994
Production
Touchstone Pictures
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1994, The Inkwell is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama, Romance title from Touchstone Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.9M. For comparison, it currently sits #8,166 all-time in the current chart set and #119 among 1994 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.