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#5,470 All-time worldwide
#47 1986 releases

Movie profile

Tough Guys

1986 · 104 min · Touchstone Pictures

Comedy Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $21.5M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget $11.5M
ROI 2.15x

Domestic gross

$8.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Tough Guys 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 #5,470 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1986 releases #47 Release-year chart position of 206 titles Ranked against movies released in 1986. Studio / company #72 Touchstone Pictures of 113 titles Position inside the mapped Touchstone Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,144 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 Tough Guys (1986) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Tough Guys (1986) earned a reported $21.5M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $11.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.15x. In this database it currently ranks #5,470 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #47 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$21,458,229
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
$11,458,229
ROI
2.15x
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

Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 3, 1986
Production
Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners II, Bryna Productions
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyTouchstone Pictures Release year chart1986 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartCrime

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, Tough Guys is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Crime title from Touchstone Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $21.5M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is $11.5M, ROI is 2.15x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,470 all-time in the current chart set and #47 among 1986 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.