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#8,200 All-time worldwide
#181 2003 releases

Movie profile

Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later

2003 · 90 min · Les Films Alain Sarde

Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.8M
Budget $12.4M
Gross minus budget -$3.7M
ROI 0.71x

Domestic gross

$3.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$984,002

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later 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 #8,200 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2003 releases #181 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2003. Studio / company #1 Les Films Alain Sarde of 3 titles Position inside the mapped Les Films Alain Sarde movie set. Franchise #1 3 Men (Original) of 2 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #3,191 Comedy of 4,840 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 Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later (2003) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later (2003) earned a reported $8.8M worldwide against a reported $12.4M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$3.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.71x. In this database it currently ranks #8,200 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #181 among 2003 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,785,730
Budget
$12,440,560
Gross minus budget
-$3,654,830
ROI
0.71x
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

Marie (and her three fathers) are taking A-levels. Marie passes. She spends the summer in the country with her mother, Sylvia, who has returned from America with her Californian husband who has two sons. Marie falls in and out of love for the first time in front of her alarmed fathers, who see Marie's innocence slipping away at frightening speed, and their relationships with the two women become even more complicated.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 5, 2003
Production
Les Films Alain Sarde, Eniloc Films, TF1 Films Production
Countries
FR

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyLes Films Alain Sarde Franchise3 Men (Original) Release year chart2003 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartRomance

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2003, Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance title from Les Films Alain Sarde. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.8M, reported production budget is $12.4M, gross-minus-budget is -$3.7M, ROI is 0.71x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,200 all-time in the current chart set and #181 among 2003 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.