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#8,967 All-time worldwide
#242 2023 releases

Movie profile

The Taste of Things

2023 · 135 min · Curiosa Films

Romance Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $6.0M
Budget $6.5M
Gross minus budget -$529,247
ROI 0.92x

Domestic gross

$3.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$537,368

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Taste of Things 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 #8,967 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2023 releases #242 Release-year chart position of 244 titles Ranked against movies released in 2023. Studio / company #5 Curiosa Films of 6 titles Position inside the mapped Curiosa Films movie set. Primary genre #1,695 Romance of 2,607 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 Taste of Things (2023) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Taste of Things (2023) earned a reported $6.0M worldwide against a reported $6.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$529.2K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.92x. In this database it currently ranks #8,967 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #242 among 2023 releases.

Worldwide gross
$5,970,753
Budget
$6,500,000
Gross minus budget
-$529,247
ROI
0.92x
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

Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 8, 2023
Production
Curiosa Films, France 2 Cinéma, uMedia
Countries
BE, FR

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2023, The Taste of Things is positioned in this dataset as a Romance, Drama title from Curiosa Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $6.0M, reported production budget is $6.5M, gross-minus-budget is -$529,247, ROI is 0.92x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,967 all-time in the current chart set and #242 among 2023 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.