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#4,644 All-time worldwide
#27 1982 releases

Movie profile

The World According to Garp

1982 · 136 min · Pan Arts

Drama Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $29.7M
Budget $17.0M
Gross minus budget $12.7M
ROI 1.75x

Domestic gross

$14.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$14.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The World According to Garp 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 #4,644 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1982 releases #27 Release-year chart position of 157 titles Ranked against movies released in 1982. Studio / company #1 Pan Arts of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Pan Arts movie set. Primary genre #1,766 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 World According to Garp (1982) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The World According to Garp (1982) earned a reported $29.7M worldwide against a reported $17.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $12.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.75x. In this database it currently ranks #4,644 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #27 among 1982 releases.

Worldwide gross
$29,712,172
Budget
$17,000,000
Gross minus budget
$12,712,172
ROI
1.75x
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 struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 23, 1982
Production
Pan Arts, Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyPan Arts Release year chart1982 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1982, The World According to Garp is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy title from Pan Arts. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $29.7M, reported production budget is $17.0M, gross-minus-budget is $12.7M, ROI is 1.75x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,644 all-time in the current chart set and #27 among 1982 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.