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#7,760 All-time worldwide
#116 1993 releases

Movie profile

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

1993 · 118 min · Paramount Pictures

Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.0M
Budget $11.0M
Gross minus budget -$1.0M
ROI 0.91x

Domestic gross

$5.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$900,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where What's Eating Gilbert Grape ranks

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Quick answer

How did What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) perform at the box office?

High confidence

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) earned a reported $10.0M worldwide against a reported $11.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$1.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.91x. In this database it currently ranks #7,760 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #116 among 1993 releases.

Worldwide gross
$10,000,000
Budget
$11,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$1,000,000
ROI
0.91x
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

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 17, 1993
Production
Paramount Pictures
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1993, What's Eating Gilbert Grape is positioned in this dataset as a Romance, Drama title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.0M, reported production budget is $11.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$1.0M, ROI is 0.91x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,760 all-time in the current chart set and #116 among 1993 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.