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#10,196 All-time worldwide
#95 1983 releases

Movie profile

The Man Who Wasn't There

1983 · 111 min · Paramount Pictures

Action Comedy Science Fiction
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.4M
Budget $6.5M
Gross minus budget -$4.1M
ROI 0.38x

Domestic gross

$977,395

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$273,671

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Man Who Wasn't There 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 #10,196 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1983 releases #95 Release-year chart position of 150 titles Ranked against movies released in 1983. Studio / company #378 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,629 Action of 2,939 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.

#10,193 Anhonee 1973 · $2.5M #10,194 The Endurance 2000 · $2.5M #10,195 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 · $2.5M #10,197 Table for Five 1983 · $2.4M #10,198 Maurice 1987 · $2.4M #10,199 Son of the Pink Panther 1993 · $2.4M

Quick answer

How did The Man Who Wasn't There (1983) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Man Who Wasn't There (1983) earned a reported $2.4M worldwide against a reported $6.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$4.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.38x. In this database it currently ranks #10,196 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #95 among 1983 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,443,487
Budget
$6,500,000
Gross minus budget
-$4,056,513
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

When he accidentally takes possession of a top-secret invisibility potion while en route to his wedding, government bureaucrat Sam Cooper finds himself engulfed in a madcap free-for-all as Russians and other bad guys try to get the substance. To elude the Reds, his own State Department bosses and his livid fiancée, Cooper takes the vanishing juice himself—which only makes matters worse.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 12, 1983
Production
Paramount Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1983 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartComedy Genre chartScience Fiction

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1983, The Man Who Wasn't There is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Comedy, Science Fiction title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.4M, reported production budget is $6.5M, gross-minus-budget is -$4.1M, ROI is 0.38x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,196 all-time in the current chart set and #95 among 1983 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.