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#9,854 All-time worldwide
#213 2001 releases

Movie profile

Waking Life

2001 · 101 min · Ifc Productions

Animation Drama Fantasy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $3.2M
Budget $2.0M
Gross minus budget $1.2M
ROI 1.59x

Domestic gross

$1.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$409,817

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Waking Life 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 #9,854 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2001 releases #213 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2001. Studio / company #3 Ifc Productions of 5 titles Position inside the mapped Ifc Productions movie set. Primary genre #839 Animation of 920 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.

#9,851 Diabolik 2021 · $3.2M #9,852 Silent Fall 1994 · $3.2M #9,853 Peace Hotel 1995 · $3.2M #9,855 Rude Awakening 1989 · $3.2M #9,856 No te fallaré 2001 · $3.2M #9,857 After the Thin Man 1936 · $3.2M

Quick answer

How did Waking Life (2001) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Waking Life (2001) earned a reported $3.2M worldwide against a reported $2.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.59x. In this database it currently ranks #9,854 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #213 among 2001 releases.

Worldwide gross
$3,176,880
Budget
$2,000,000
Gross minus budget
$1,176,880
ROI
1.59x
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

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 19, 2001
Production
IFC Productions, Thousand Words, Detour Filmproduction
Countries
US

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2001, Waking Life is positioned in this dataset as a Animation, Drama, Fantasy title from IFC Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $3.2M, reported production budget is $2.0M, gross-minus-budget is $1.2M, ROI is 1.59x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,854 all-time in the current chart set and #213 among 2001 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.