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#8,445 All-time worldwide
#135 1997 releases

Movie profile

The Sweet Hereafter

1997 · 112 min · Ego Film Arts

Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.0M
Budget $5.0M
Gross minus budget $3.0M
ROI 1.59x

Domestic gross

$4.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$715,612

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Sweet Hereafter ranks

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Quick answer

How did The Sweet Hereafter (1997) perform at the box office?

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The Sweet Hereafter (1997) earned a reported $8.0M worldwide against a reported $5.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $3.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.59x. In this database it currently ranks #8,445 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #135 among 1997 releases.

Worldwide gross
$7,951,247
Budget
$5,000,000
Gross minus budget
$2,951,247
ROI
1.59x
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 small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 25, 1997
Production
Ego Film Arts, Alliance Films
Countries
CA

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1997, The Sweet Hereafter is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Ego Film Arts. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.0M, reported production budget is $5.0M, gross-minus-budget is $3.0M, ROI is 1.59x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,445 all-time in the current chart set and #135 among 1997 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.