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#10,151 All-time worldwide
#234 2003 releases

Movie profile

Young Adam

2003 · 93 min · Recorded Picture Company

Drama Thriller Crime Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.5M
Budget $6.4M
Gross minus budget -$3.9M
ROI 0.39x

Domestic gross

$1.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$225,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Young Adam 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 #10,151 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2003 releases #234 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2003. Studio / company #6 Recorded Picture Company of 10 titles Position inside the mapped Recorded Picture Company movie set. Primary genre #4,411 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.

#10,148 Reform School Girls 1986 · $2.5M #10,149 Ridicule 1996 · $2.5M #10,150 The Black Marble 1980 · $2.5M #10,175 P.O.W. The Escape 1986 · $2.5M #10,176 Rumble Fish 1983 · $2.5M #10,177 The Stupids 1996 · $2.5M

Quick answer

How did Young Adam (2003) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Young Adam (2003) earned a reported $2.5M worldwide against a reported $6.4M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$3.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.39x. In this database it currently ranks #10,151 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #234 among 2003 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,500,000
Budget
$6,400,000
Gross minus budget
-$3,900,000
ROI
0.39x
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

A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 26, 2003
Production
Recorded Picture Company, StudioCanal UK, HanWay Films
Countries
GB, FR

Related indexes

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2003, Young Adam is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Thriller, Crime title from Recorded Picture Company. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.5M, reported production budget is $6.4M, gross-minus-budget is -$3.9M, ROI is 0.39x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,151 all-time in the current chart set and #234 among 2003 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.