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#9,137 All-time worldwide
#111 1991 releases

Movie profile

The Object of Beauty

1991 · 103 min · Avenue Pictures

Drama Comedy Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $5.1M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$2.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$462,257

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Object of Beauty 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 #9,137 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1991 releases #111 Release-year chart position of 231 titles Ranked against movies released in 1991. Studio / company #2 Avenue Pictures of 4 titles Position inside the mapped Avenue Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,917 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 Object of Beauty (1991) perform at the box office?

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The Object of Beauty (1991) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $5.1M. In this database it currently ranks #9,137 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #111 among 1991 releases.

Worldwide gross
$5,136,192
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

American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 12, 1991
Production
Avenue Pictures, BBC, Avenue Entertainment
Countries
GB, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1991, The Object of Beauty is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy, Crime title from Avenue Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $5.1M. For comparison, it currently sits #9,137 all-time in the current chart set and #111 among 1991 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.