Actor
John Lithgow
11 films•1983–2024•Drama · Comedy · Romance
68%average critics63%average audience$95.6Mdomestic average
Films
11
1983–2024
Domestic
$1.05B
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.76B
lifetime
Avg opening
$18.7M
3-day
Avg legs
4.82x
opening → total
Return
4.8x
on $368.0M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Shrek | 2001 | $42.3M | $270.2M | 6.40x | $494.3M | A | 88% | #3 |
 Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 2011 | $54.8M | $176.8M | 3.23x | $471.0M | A- | 82% | #11 |
 Terms of Endearment | 1983 | $3.5M | $108.4M | 31.0x | — | — | 81% | — |
 Cliffhanger | 1993 | $16.2M | $84.0M | 5.20x | $255.0M | — | 67% | — |
 Footloose | 1984 | $8.6M | $80.0M | 9.30x | — | — | 55% | — |
 Rugrats in Paris | 2000 | $22.7M | $76.5M | 3.37x | $103.0M | A- | 76% | #28 |
 This Is 40 | 2012 | $11.6M | $67.5M | 5.83x | $90.2M | B- | 52% | #42 |
 A Civil Action | 1998 | $70K | $56.7M | 809.2x | — | B | 65% | — |
 Pet Sematary | 2019 | $24.5M | $54.7M | 2.20x | $111.8M | C+ | 58% | — |
 Confessions of a Shopaholic | 2009 | $15.1M | $44.3M | 2.94x | $108.0M | B | 26% | — |
 Conclave | 2024 | $6.6M | $32.6M | 4.90x | $128.0M | A- | 93% | #46 |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 4.1 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.8x
$1.76B worldwide on $368.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $806.6MInternational $954.7M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven8.2x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →1 placing across 1 all-time chart. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
