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#8,286 All-time worldwide
#82 1986 releases

Movie profile

Wise Guys

1986 · 92 min · Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Comedy Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.5M
Budget $13.0M
Gross minus budget -$4.5M
ROI 0.65x

Domestic gross

$3.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$949,252

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Wise Guys 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 #8,286 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1986 releases #82 Release-year chart position of 206 titles Ranked against movies released in 1986. Studio / company #82 Metro Goldwyn Mayer of 281 titles Position inside the mapped Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie set. Primary genre #3,231 Comedy of 4,840 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 Wise Guys (1986) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Wise Guys (1986) earned a reported $8.5M worldwide against a reported $13.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$4.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.65x. In this database it currently ranks #8,286 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #82 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,475,466
Budget
$13,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$4,524,534
ROI
0.65x
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

Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 17, 1986
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyMetro Goldwyn Mayer Release year chart1986 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartCrime

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, Wise Guys is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Crime title from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.5M, reported production budget is $13.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$4.5M, ROI is 0.65x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,286 all-time in the current chart set and #82 among 1986 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.