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#12,289 All-time worldwide
#193 1989 releases

Movie profile

The Women of Brewster Place

1989 · 178 min · Box Office Data

Drama History
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $100,000
Budget $1.2M
Gross minus budget -$1.1M
ROI 0.08x

Domestic gross

$50,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$50,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$9,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Women of Brewster Place ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #12,289 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #193 Release-year chart position of 218 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Primary genre #5,554 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.

#12,286 The Adventures of Sebastian Cole 1998 · $100,841 #12,287 A Woman Is a Woman 1961 · $100,655 #12,288 Left Luggage 1998 · $100,544 #12,343 A Place in the World 1992 · $99,707 #12,344 Cold Heaven 1992 · $99,219 #12,345 The Telephone 1988 · $99,030

Quick answer

How did The Women of Brewster Place (1989) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Women of Brewster Place (1989) earned a reported $100.0K worldwide against a reported $1.2M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$1.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.08x. In this database it currently ranks #12,289 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #193 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross
$100,000
Budget
$1,200,000
Gross minus budget
-$1,100,000
ROI
0.08x
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 multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 19, 1989
Production
Box Office Data

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, The Women of Brewster Place is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, History title. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $100,000, reported production budget is $1.2M, gross-minus-budget is -$1.1M, ROI is 0.08x. For comparison, it currently sits #12,289 all-time in the current chart set and #193 among 1989 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.