Actor
Reese WitherspoonFollow
25 films•1996–2021•Comedy · Drama · Romance
Avg critics57%
Avg audience66%
Avg domestic$70.3M
Domestic
$1.76B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$3.20B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$17.1M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sing | 2016 | $55.9M | $270.4M | 4.83x | $634.4M | A | 71% | #10 |
 Monsters vs. Aliens | 2009 | $59.3M | $198.0M | 3.34x | $382.0M | A- | 73% | #11 |
 Sing 2 | 2021 | $22.0M | $163.0M | 7.40x | $408.0M | A | 72% | #7 |
 Sweet Home Alabama | 2002 | $35.6M | $127.0M | 3.57x | $181.0M | A | 39% | #18 |
 Four Christmases | 2008 | $31.1M | $120.0M | 3.87x | $164.0M | B | 25% | #21 |
 Walk the Line | 2005 | $22.3M | $120.0M | 5.35x | $187.0M | A | 83% | #16 |
 A Wrinkle in Time | 2018 | $33.1M | $100.5M | 3.03x | $133.2M | B | 42% | #36 |
 Legally Blonde | 2001 | $20.4M | $96.5M | 4.74x | $142.0M | A- | 72% | #22 |
 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | 2003 | $22.2M | $90.2M | 4.06x | $125.0M | B | 35% | #33 |
 Water for Elephants | 2011 | $16.8M | $58.7M | 3.50x | $116.8M | A- | 60% | — |
 This Means War | 2012 | $17.4M | $54.8M | 3.15x | $156.0M | A- | 24% | — |
 Just Like Heaven | 2005 | $16.4M | $48.3M | 2.94x | $103.0M | — | 54% | — |
 Pleasantville | 1998 | $8.9M | $40.6M | 4.60x | $49.8M | — | 85% | — |
 Cruel Intentions | 1999 | $13.0M | $38.7M | 3.00x | $76.2M | — | 55% | — |
 Wild | 2014 | $607K | $37.9M | 9.20x | $52.5M | A- | 88% | — |
 Hot Pursuit | 2015 | $13.9M | $34.6M | 2.50x | $51.7M | — | 8% | — |
 How Do You Know | 2010 | $7.5M | $30.2M | 4.00x | $49.6M | — | 32% | — |
 Home Again | 2017 | $8.6M | $27.0M | 3.20x | $37.3M | — | 33% | — |
 Mud | 2012 | $2.2M | $21.6M | 8.50x | $31.6M | — | 97% | — |
 Fear | 1996 | $6.3M | $20.7M | 3.30x | — | B | 47% | — |
 American Psycho | 2000 | $5.0M | $15.1M | 3.00x | $34.3M | — | 69% | — |
 Election | 1999 | $119K | $14.9M | 4.70x | $17.2M | — | 92% | — |
 Penelope | 2008 | $3.8M | $10.0M | 2.60x | $21.4M | — | 53% | — |
 Rendition | 2007 | $4.1M | $9.7M | 2.40x | $26.9M | — | 46% | — |
 Inherent Vice | 2014 | $328K | $8.1M | 2.90x | $14.8M | — | 73% | — |
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
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DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.0 years
Profitability
Return on budget
2.9x
$3.12B worldwide on $1.07B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.69BInternational $1.44B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x 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, 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#2Biggest grossers never #1Sing$270.4M#3Best second-weekend holds ($20M+ openers)Sing+21.7%#12Biggest Thanksgiving openingsFour Christmases$46.1M#14Biggest September openingsSweet Home Alabama$35.6M#14Biggest Christmas openingsSing$35.3M#20Biggest March openingsMonsters vs. Aliens$59.3M
Top 6 of 7 placings across 7 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.