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#5,358 All-time worldwide
#167 2007 releases

Movie profile

Waitress

2007 · 105 min · Night & Day Pictures

Drama Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $22.2M
Budget $1.5M
Gross minus budget $20.7M
ROI 14.83x

Domestic gross

$11.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$11.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Waitress 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 #5,358 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2007 releases #167 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2007. Primary genre #2,128 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.

#5,355 The Manual of Love 2005 · $22.3M #5,356 Benji the Hunted 1987 · $22.3M #5,357 Pink Floyd: The Wall 1982 · $22.2M #5,359 Emma 1996 · $22.2M #5,360 Norma Rae 1979 · $22.2M #5,361 Reign Over Me 2007 · $22.2M

Quick answer

How did Waitress (2007) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Waitress (2007) earned a reported $22.2M worldwide against a reported $1.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $20.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 14.83x. In this database it currently ranks #5,358 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #167 among 2007 releases.

Worldwide gross
$22,240,529
Budget
$1,500,000
Gross minus budget
$20,740,529
ROI
14.83x
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 small town waitress stuck in a lousy marriage finds love when an exciting out-of-towner enters her life.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 25, 2007
Production
Night & Day Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2007, Waitress is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy, Romance title from Night & Day Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $22.2M, reported production budget is $1.5M, gross-minus-budget is $20.7M, ROI is 14.83x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,358 all-time in the current chart set and #167 among 2007 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.