About Schmidt backdrop
About Schmidt movie poster

About Schmidt

2003 R 2h 5m Drama New Line Cinema

Schmidt Happens.

About Schmidt Box Office

Opening Weekend
$8.5M
Peak weekend · 816 theaters
Domestic Total
$65.0M
Final
Worldwide Total
$107M
$42.1M international
Domestic Legs7.6x
Budget$30.0M
2003 Rank#47
Compare with other movies
Save comparisonsSave your matchups and
revisit them any time
Predict the weekendPredict the top five and
move up the leaderboard
Rate filmsRate movies and pin your
favorites to your profile
One account.
The whole box office.
Save comparisonsSave and track the matchups you create
Predict the weekendPredict this weekend’s top 5, top the leaderboard
Rate filmsRate movies and display favorites on your profile
Create free account
Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 13-15 23 $282K $282K 6 $47.1K 1
Dec 20-22 17 $602K +113% $1.02M 26 $23.1K 2
Dec 27-29 22 $845K +40% $2.57M 34 $24.9K 3
Jan 3-5 5 $8.53M +910% $12.03M 816 $10.5K 4
Jan 10-12 5 $6.40M -25% $21.60M 865 $7.4K 5
Jan 17-19 8 $5.67M -11% $30.69M 946 $6.0K 6
Jan 24-26 9 $5.38M -5% $37.75M 1,236 $4.4K 7
Jan 31-Feb 2 10 $4.52M -16% $44.19M 1,236 $3.7K 8
Feb 7-9 11 $3.02M -33% $48.48M 1,240 $2.4K 9
Feb 14-16 11 $3.09M +2% $53.01M 1,208 $2.6K 10
Feb 21-23 16 $1.70M -45% $55.48M 905 $1.9K 11
Feb 28-Mar 2 14 $1.86M +9% $57.98M 1,007 $1.8K 12
Mar 7-9 14 $1.38M -26% $60.01M 845 $1.6K 13
Mar 14-16 15 $1.09M -21% $61.63M 713 $1.5K 14
Mar 21-23 18 $845K -23% $62.91M 533 $1.6K 15
Mar 28-30 22 $450K -47% $63.68M 375 $1.2K 16
Apr 4-6 28 $250K -44% $64.09M 264 $946 17
Apr 11-13 35 $158K -37% $64.34M 226 $698 18
Apr 18-20 35 $142K -10% $64.54M 206 $690 19
Apr 25-27 43 $92K -35% $64.71M 161 $572 20
May 2-4 46 $77K -17% $64.82M 134 $572 21
May 9-11 51 $52K -32% $64.90M 100 $524 22
May 16-18 57 $36K -32% $64.96M 82 $437 23
May 23-25 65 $25K -31% $65.01M 43 $573 24

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

Daily Gross

Cumulative Total

Weekend Gross Trend

Theater Count

Profitability

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

Domestic vs International Split

Week-over-Week Drop

Weekly Gross Decline (%)

Cast & Crew

Directed byAlexander Payne
ScreenplayAlexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Produced byMichael Besman, Harry Gittes
CinematographyJames Glennon
MusicRolfe Kent
Prod. DesignJane Ann Stewart
StarringJack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, June Squibb, Howard Hesseman
StudioNew Line Cinema

Similar Movies

Sideways 2004 · Payne $71.5M The Descendants 2011 · Payne $82.6M The Holdovers 2023 · Payne $20.4M Nebraska 2013 · Payne $17.7M About a Boy 2002 · Weitz $41.4M

Box Office Comparisons

No head-to-head comparisons featuring About Schmidt yet — build one in seconds.

Build your own comparison →