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Dirty Dancing

1987 • PG-13 • 1h 40m • Drama, Music, Romance • Vestron Pictures

First dance. First love. The time of your life.

🍅 73% 90% MC 65 LB 3.77 IMDb 7.1

Box office summary

Opening Weekend
$3.9M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$63.9M
Final
Worldwide Total
$213.9M
$150M international
Domestic Legs16.4x
Budget$6M
1987 Rank#12
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Cast & Crew

Directed byEmile Ardolino Written byEleanor Bergstein Produced byLinda Gottlieb Music byJohn Morris StarringPatrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston StudioVestron Pictures
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The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal
1 Aug 21-23 4 $3.9M — 975 $4,000 $3.9M
2 Aug 28-30 3 $3.7M −6.0% 975 $3,761 $10.0M
3 Sep 4-6 2 $4.9M +33.3% 1,002 $4,879 $16.5M
4 Sep 11-13 2 $3.5M −27.6% 1,009 $3,511 $20.9M
5 Sep 18-20 6 $2.5M −30.2% 994 $2,486 $24.5M
6 Sep 25-27 6 $2.1M −15.0% 1,001 $2,099 $27.4M
7 Oct 2-4 5 $1.9M −10.6% 990 $1,897 $30.0M
8 Oct 9-11 6 $2.0M +7.6% 978 $2,067 $32.6M
9 Oct 16-18 5 $1.8M −9.0% 1,012 $1,817 $34.8M
10 Oct 23-25 6 $1.8M −2.9% 991 $1,802 $37.2M
11 Oct 30-Nov 1 9 $1.3M −26.9% 994 $1,312 $39.2M
12 Nov 6-8 12 $1.7M +30.7% 878 $1,942 $41.5M
13 Nov 13-15 8 $1.7M −0.2% 958 $1,775 $43.9M
14 Nov 20-22 9 $1.5M −13.7% 951 $1,544 $45.9M
15 Nov 27-29 9 $1.7M +16.1% 978 $1,743 $48.4M
16 Dec 4-6 8 $1.2M −30.8% 995 $1,185 $50.0M
17 Dec 11-13 10 $844.2K −28.4% 986 $856 $51.5M
20 Jan 1-3 13 $1.3M — 855 $1,495 $55.9M
21 Jan 8-10 11 $991.1K −22.4% 809 $1,225 $57.3M
22 Jan 15-17 13 $567.9K −42.7% 654 $868 $58.2M
23 Jan 22-24 18 $499.4K −12.1% 642 $778 $59.0M
24 Jan 29-31 12 $501.0K +0.3% 645 $777 $60.4M
25 Feb 5-7 11 $374.4K −25.3% 542 $691 $61.0M
Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record
Weekend grossWk 10 · $1.8M
$3.9M
$3.7M
$4.9M
$3.5M
$2.5M
$2.1M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$1.8M
$1.8M
W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10
Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −2.9%
−6.0%
W1→2
+33.3%
W2→3
−27.6%
W3→4
−30.2%
W4→5
−15.0%
W5→6
−10.6%
W6→7
+7.6%
W7→8
−9.0%
W8→9
−2.9%
W9→10
Steepest −30.2%Biggest gain +33.3%

Profitability

Return on Budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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