#2,840 All-time worldwide

#23 1991 releases

Movie profile

What About Bob?

Name: What About Bob?
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1991-05-17
Duration: 100 min

1991 · 100 min · Touchstone Pictures

Comedy

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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.

Worldwide gross $63.7M

Budget $35.0M

Gross minus budget $28.7M

ROI 1.82x

Domestic gross

$25.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$38.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$7.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where What About Bob? ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.

Open rankings

All-time worldwide #2,840 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1991 releases #23 Release-year chart position of 230 titles Ranked against movies released in 1991. Studio / company #45 Touchstone Pictures of 114 titles Position inside the mapped Touchstone Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,082 Comedy of 4,945 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.

#2,837 Hanna 2011 · $63.8M #2,838 High Crimes 2002 · $63.8M #2,839 The Witches of Eastwick 1987 · $63.8M #2,841 Cop Land 1997 · $63.7M #2,842 Young Sherlock Holmes 1985 · $63.7M #2,843 Hail, Caesar! 2016 · $63.6M

Quick answer

How did What About Bob? (1991) perform at the box office?

High confidence

What About Bob? (1991) earned a reported $63.7M worldwide against a reported $35.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $28.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.82x. In this database it currently ranks #2,840 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #23 among 1991 releases.

Worldwide gross: $63,710,000
Budget: $35,000,000
Gross minus budget: $28,710,000
ROI: 1.82x

Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

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Movie facts

Production details

Release date: May 17, 1991
Production: Touchstone Pictures, Touchwood Pacific Partners 1
Countries: US

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Studio / production companyTouchstone Pictures Release year chart1991 box office Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1991, What About Bob? is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Touchstone Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $63.7M, reported production budget is $35.0M, gross-minus-budget is $28.7M, ROI is 1.82x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,840 all-time in the current chart set and #23 among 1991 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.