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#3,860 All-time worldwide
#50 1993 releases

Movie profile

The Secret Garden

1993 · 101 min · Warner Bros. Pictures

Drama Family Fantasy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $40.0M
Budget $18.0M
Gross minus budget $22.0M
ROI 2.22x

Domestic gross

$17.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$22.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$5.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Secret Garden 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 #3,860 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1993 releases #50 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1993. Studio / company #120 Warner Bros. Pictures of 288 titles Position inside the mapped Warner Bros. Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,423 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.

#3,857 Memento 2000 · $40.1M #3,858 Funny Lady 1975 · $40.1M #3,859 Roxanne 1987 · $40.1M #3,868 Dream House 2011 · $40.0M #3,869 Love O2O 2016 · $40.0M #3,870 The Secret Life of Bees 2008 · $40.0M

Quick answer

How did The Secret Garden (1993) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Secret Garden (1993) earned a reported $40.0M worldwide against a reported $18.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $22.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.22x. In this database it currently ranks #3,860 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #50 among 1993 releases.

Worldwide gross
$40,000,000
Budget
$18,000,000
Gross minus budget
$22,000,000
ROI
2.22x
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

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 13, 1993
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures, American Zoetrope
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyWarner Bros. Pictures Release year chart1993 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartFamily Genre chartFantasy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1993, The Secret Garden is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Family, Fantasy title from Warner Bros. Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $40.0M, reported production budget is $18.0M, gross-minus-budget is $22.0M, ROI is 2.22x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,860 all-time in the current chart set and #50 among 1993 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.