Actor
Reese Witherspoon
15 films•1999–2021•Comedy · Drama · Romance
59%average critics70%average audience$98.1Mdomestic average
Films
15
1999–2021
Domestic
$1.47B
lifetime
Worldwide
$2.77B
lifetime
Avg opening
$23.7M
3-day
Avg legs
4.43x
opening → total
Return
3.4x
on $811.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 15 films featuring Reese Witherspoon, from Cruel Intentions (1999) to Sing 2 (2021), together grossing $1.47B domestic and $2.77B worldwide. The biggest hit is Sing (2016) at $634.4M worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) at $59.3M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sing 2 | 2021 | $22.0M | $163.0M | 7.40x | $408.0M | A | 72% | #7 |
 A Wrinkle in Time | 2018 | $33.1M | $100.5M | 3.03x | $133.2M | B | 42% | #36 |
 Sing | 2016 | $55.9M | $270.4M | 4.83x | $634.4M | A | 71% | #10 |
 Inherent Vice | 2014 | $328K | $8.1M | 24.7x | $14.8M | — | 73% | — |
 Mud | 2012 | $2.2M | $21.6M | 9.70x | $31.6M | — | 97% | — |
 This Means War | 2012 | $17.4M | $54.8M | 3.15x | $156.0M | A- | 24% | — |
 Monsters vs. Aliens | 2009 | $59.3M | $198.0M | 3.34x | $382.0M | A- | 73% | #11 |
 Four Christmases | 2008 | $31.1M | $120.0M | 3.87x | $164.0M | B | 25% | #21 |
 Just Like Heaven | 2005 | $16.4M | $48.3M | 2.94x | $103.0M | — | 54% | — |
 Walk the Line | 2005 | $22.3M | $120.0M | 5.35x | $187.0M | A | 83% | #16 |
 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | 2003 | $22.2M | $90.2M | 4.06x | $125.0M | B | 35% | #33 |
 Sweet Home Alabama | 2002 | $35.6M | $127.0M | 3.57x | $181.0M | A | 39% | #18 |
 Legally Blonde | 2001 | $20.4M | $96.5M | 4.74x | $142.0M | A- | 72% | #22 |
 American Psycho | 2000 | $5.0M | $15.1M | 3.00x | $34.3M | — | 69% | — |
 Cruel Intentions | 1999 | $13.0M | $38.7M | 3.00x | $76.2M | — | 55% | — |
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 1.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.4x
$2.77B worldwide on $811.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.47BInternational $1.30B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven8.5x
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
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.