Actor
John LithgowFollow
21 films•1981–2024•Drama · Comedy · Romance
Avg critics65%
Avg audience65%
Avg domestic$67.1M
Domestic
$1.41B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$2.13B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$13.6M
3-day
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 | 25.5x | — | — | 81% | — |
 Daddy's Home 2 | 2017 | $29.7M | $104.0M | 3.51x | $180.8M | A | 52% | #30 |
 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 | 3.70x | — | 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% | — |
 Orange County | 2002 | $15.1M | $41.1M | 2.70x | $43.3M | B | 47% | — |
 2010: The Year We Make Contact | 1984 | $7.4M | $41.0M | 5.50x | — | — | 68% | — |
 Conclave | 2024 | $6.6M | $32.6M | 4.90x | $128.0M | A- | 93% | #46 |
 Bombshell | 2019 | $319K | $31.8M | 6.20x | $61.4M | — | 67% | — |
 The World According to Garp | 1982 | $2.9M | $30.2M | 10.4x | — | — | 71% | — |
 Harry and the Hendersons | 1987 | $4.2M | $29.8M | 7.20x | $32.6M | — | 50% | — |
 Twilight Zone: The Movie | 1983 | $6.6M | $29.5M | 4.50x | — | — | 57% | — |
 Leap Year | 2010 | $9.2M | $25.9M | 2.80x | $32.6M | — | 24% | — |
 Blow Out | 1981 | $3.0M | $13.7M | 4.60x | — | — | 88% | — |
 Kinsey | 2004 | $169K | $10.2M | 7.90x | $17.4M | — | 90% | — |
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 2.1 years
Profitability
Return on budget
4.0x
$2.10B worldwide on $518.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.02BInternational $1.08B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x 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, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records#9Biggest August openingsRise of the Planet of the Apes$54.8M#10Best second-weekend holds ($20M+ openers)Shrek+0.3%#12Most weekends in the top 10Terms of Endearment22 weekends#15Longest runs of $1M+ daysShrek—#20Most weeks at #1Terms of Endearment6 weeks
5 placings across 5 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full scheduleNo upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
