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#11,994 All-time worldwide
#80 1978 releases

Movie profile

What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

1978 · 85 min · La Salamandra

Drama Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $233,575
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$116,788

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$116,787

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$21,022

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? 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 #11,994 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1978 releases #80 Release-year chart position of 89 titles Ranked against movies released in 1978. Studio / company #2 La Salamandra of 2 titles Position inside the mapped La Salamandra movie set. Primary genre #5,401 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.

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Quick answer

How did What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1978) perform at the box office?

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What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1978) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $233.6K. In this database it currently ranks #11,994 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #80 among 1978 releases.

Worldwide gross
$233,575
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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

Persecuted by her controlling ex-husband, Rosa plots an escape

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 16, 1978
Production
La Salamandra
Countries
ES

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Studio / production companyLa Salamandra Release year chart1978 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1978, What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy title from La Salamandra. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $233,575. For comparison, it currently sits #11,994 all-time in the current chart set and #80 among 1978 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.