Actor
Patrick Swayze
7 films•1983–2001•Drama · Thriller · Crime
67%average critics79%average audience$59.7Mdomestic average
Films
7
1983–2001
Domestic
$417.9M
lifetime
Worldwide
$858.7M
lifetime
Avg opening
$6.4M
3-day
Avg legs
8.92x
opening → total
Return
14.4x
on $56.5M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ghost | 1990 | $12.2M | $218.0M | 17.9x | $506.0M | — | 74% | — |
 Dirty Dancing | 1987 | $3.9M | $63.9M | 16.4x | $213.9M | — | 73% | — |
 Point Break | 1991 | $8.5M | $43.2M | 5.10x | $83.5M | — | 68% | — |
 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar | 1995 | $9.0M | $36.5M | 4.00x | $47.8M | B+ | 49% | — |
 Road House | 1989 | $6.0M | $30.1M | 5.00x | — | — | 44% | — |
 The Outsiders | 1983 | $5.1M | $25.7M | 5.10x | — | — | 71% | — |
 Donnie Darko | 2001 | $110K | $517K | — | $7.5M | — | 88% | — |
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
0$250M$500M
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 3.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
14.4x
$810.9M worldwide on $56.5M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $325.6MInternational $485.3M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven35.6x
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.