The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
| Theatrical Performance | ||
| Domestic Box Office | $1,477,002 | Details |
| International Box Office | $802,957 | |
| Worldwide Box Office | $2,279,959 | |
| Further financial details... | ||
Synopsis
Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother’s boyfriend, “the handsomest man in the world,” Monroe Rutherford. Set in 1976 San Francisco, the film begins at the crossroads of the fading hippie movement and the dawn of punk rock. News commentary of the Patty Hearst trial echoes in the background, as Minnie’s young eyes soak in a drug-laden city in transition—where teenage rebellion and adult responsibility clash in characters lost and longing. Minnie’s hard-partying mother and absent father have left her rudderless. She first finds solace in Monroe’s seductive smile, and then on the backstreets of the city by the bay. Minnie emerges defiant—taking command of her sexuality and drawing on her newfound creative talents to reveal truths in the kind of intimate and vivid detail that can only be found in the pages of a teenage girl's diary.
Metrics
| Opening Weekend: | $52,334 (3.5% of total gross) |
| Legs: | 3.76 (domestic box office/biggest weekend) |
| Domestic Share: | 64.8% (domestic box office/worldwide) |
| Production Budget: | $2,000,000 (worldwide box office is 1.1 times production budget) |
| Theater counts: | 4 opening theaters/795 max. theaters, 1.6 weeks average run per theater |
| Infl. Adj. Dom. BO | $2,095,488 |
Movie Details
| Domestic Releases: | August 7th, 2015 (Limited) by Sony Pictures Classics |
| International Releases: | August 7th, 2015 (Wide) (United Kingdom)
September 24th, 2015 (Limited), released as Diary of a Teenage Girl (Australia) October 21st, 2015 (Wide) (Belgium) October 23rd, 2015 (Wide) (South Africa) November 19th, 2015 (Wide) (Germany) |
| Video Release: | January 5th, 2016 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| MPA Rating: | R for strong sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity, drug use, language and
drinking - all involving teens. (Rating bulletin 2375, 5/27/2015) |
| Running Time: | 101 minutes |
| Cast, crew, or production detail: | Actors Making Their Directorial Debut, Animated Sequences, Autobiographical, Voiceover/Narration |
| Film festival: | Sundance Film Festival 2015 |
| Geographical setting: | San Francisco |
| Plot point: | Artists, Coming of Age, Dysfunctional Family, Hallucinations, Infidelity, LGBTQ+, Loss Of Virginity, Love Triangle, Narcotics, Non-Chronological, Relationships Gone Wrong, Sex Crimes, Sexual Awakening |
| Subgenre: | Comedy Drama |
| Time period setting: | 1970s |
| Source: | Based on Comic/Graphic Novel |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Historical Fiction |
| Production/Financing Companies: | Caviar, Cold Iron Pictures, Archer Gray Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States |
| Languages: | English |
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Theaters | Per Theater | Total Gross | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2015 | 37 | $52,334 | 4 | $13,084 | $52,334 | 1 | |
| Aug 14, 2015 | 34 | $107,052 | +105% | 22 | $4,866 | $189,446 | 2 |
| Aug 21, 2015 | 31 | $170,821 | +60% | 69 | $2,476 | $330,207 | 3 |
| Aug 28, 2015 | 24 | $393,153 | +130% | 795 | $495 | $723,360 | 4 |
| Sep 4, 2015 | 38 | $152,320 | -61% | 255 | $597 | $1,235,668 | 5 |
| Sep 11, 2015 | 49 | $55,184 | -64% | 69 | $800 | $1,388,790 | 6 |
| Sep 18, 2015 | 64 | $24,402 | -56% | 25 | $976 | $1,433,459 | 7 |
| Sep 25, 2015 | 69 | $11,983 | -51% | 25 | $479 | $1,453,254 | 8 |
| Oct 2, 2015 | 84 | $5,885 | -51% | 8 | $736 | $1,464,284 | 9 |
| Oct 9, 2015 | 77 | $5,046 | -14% | 11 | $459 | $1,471,799 | 10 |
| Oct 16, 2015 | 83 | $1,890 | -63% | 7 | $270 | $1,475,910 | 11 |
| Oct 23, 2015 | 98 | $229 | -88% | 1 | $229 | $1,477,002 | 12 |
Weekly Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Theaters | Per Theater | Total Gross | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2015 | 38 | $82,394 | 4 | $20,599 | $82,394 | 1 | |
| Aug 14, 2015 | 34 | $162,277 | +97% | 22 | $7,376 | $244,671 | 2 |
| Aug 21, 2015 | 31 | $255,410 | +57% | 69 | $3,702 | $500,081 | 3 |
| Aug 28, 2015 | 25 | $583,267 | +128% | 795 | $734 | $1,083,348 | 4 |
| Sep 4, 2015 | 36 | $250,258 | -57% | 255 | $981 | $1,333,606 | 5 |
| Sep 11, 2015 | 49 | $75,451 | -70% | 69 | $1,093 | $1,409,057 | 6 |
| Sep 18, 2015 | 65 | $32,214 | -57% | 25 | $1,289 | $1,441,271 | 7 |
| Sep 25, 2015 | 70 | $17,128 | -47% | 18 | $952 | $1,458,399 | 8 |
| Oct 2, 2015 | 86 | $8,354 | -51% | 8 | $1,044 | $1,466,753 | 9 |
| Oct 9, 2015 | 76 | $7,267 | -13% | 11 | $661 | $1,474,020 | 10 |
| Oct 16, 2015 | 94 | $2,753 | -62% | 7 | $393 | $1,476,773 | 11 |
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Synopsis
Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother’s boyfriend, “the handsomest man in the world,” Monroe Rutherford. Set in 1976 San Francisco, the film begins at the crossroads of the fading hippie movement and the dawn of punk rock. News commentary of the Patty Hearst trial echoes in the background, as Minnie’s young eyes soak in a drug-laden city in transition—where teenage rebellion and adult responsibility clash in characters lost and longing. Minnie’s hard-partying mother and absent father have left her rudderless. She first finds solace in Monroe’s seductive smile, and then on the backstreets of the city by the bay. Minnie emerges defiant—taking command of her sexuality and drawing on her newfound creative talents to reveal truths in the kind of intimate and vivid detail that can only be found in the pages of a teenage girl's diary.
Metrics
| Opening Weekend: | $52,334 (3.5% of total gross) |
| Legs: | 3.76 (domestic box office/biggest weekend) |
| Domestic Share: | 64.8% (domestic box office/worldwide) |
| Production Budget: | $2,000,000 (worldwide box office is 1.1 times production budget) |
| Theater counts: | 4 opening theaters/795 max. theaters, 1.6 weeks average run per theater |
| Infl. Adj. Dom. BO | $2,095,488 |
Movie Details
| Domestic Releases: | August 7th, 2015 (Limited) by Sony Pictures Classics |
| International Releases: | August 7th, 2015 (Wide) (United Kingdom)
September 24th, 2015 (Limited), released as Diary of a Teenage Girl (Australia) October 21st, 2015 (Wide) (Belgium) October 23rd, 2015 (Wide) (South Africa) November 19th, 2015 (Wide) (Germany) |
| Video Release: | January 5th, 2016 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| MPA Rating: | R for strong sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity, drug use, language and
drinking - all involving teens. (Rating bulletin 2375, 5/27/2015) |
| Running Time: | 101 minutes |
| Cast, crew, or production detail: | Actors Making Their Directorial Debut, Animated Sequences, Autobiographical, Voiceover/Narration |
| Film festival: | Sundance Film Festival 2015 |
| Geographical setting: | San Francisco |
| Plot point: | Artists, Coming of Age, Dysfunctional Family, Hallucinations, Infidelity, LGBTQ+, Loss Of Virginity, Love Triangle, Narcotics, Non-Chronological, Relationships Gone Wrong, Sex Crimes, Sexual Awakening |
| Subgenre: | Comedy Drama |
| Time period setting: | 1970s |
| Source: | Based on Comic/Graphic Novel |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Historical Fiction |
| Production/Financing Companies: | Caviar, Cold Iron Pictures, Archer Gray Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States |
| Languages: | English |
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Theaters | Per Theater | Total Gross | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2015 | 37 | $52,334 | 4 | $13,084 | $52,334 | 1 | |
| Aug 14, 2015 | 34 | $107,052 | +105% | 22 | $4,866 | $189,446 | 2 |
| Aug 21, 2015 | 31 | $170,821 | +60% | 69 | $2,476 | $330,207 | 3 |
| Aug 28, 2015 | 24 | $393,153 | +130% | 795 | $495 | $723,360 | 4 |
| Sep 4, 2015 | 38 | $152,320 | -61% | 255 | $597 | $1,235,668 | 5 |
| Sep 11, 2015 | 49 | $55,184 | -64% | 69 | $800 | $1,388,790 | 6 |
| Sep 18, 2015 | 64 | $24,402 | -56% | 25 | $976 | $1,433,459 | 7 |
| Sep 25, 2015 | 69 | $11,983 | -51% | 25 | $479 | $1,453,254 | 8 |
| Oct 2, 2015 | 84 | $5,885 | -51% | 8 | $736 | $1,464,284 | 9 |
| Oct 9, 2015 | 77 | $5,046 | -14% | 11 | $459 | $1,471,799 | 10 |
| Oct 16, 2015 | 83 | $1,890 | -63% | 7 | $270 | $1,475,910 | 11 |
| Oct 23, 2015 | 98 | $229 | -88% | 1 | $229 | $1,477,002 | 12 |
Weekly Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Theaters | Per Theater | Total Gross | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2015 | 38 | $82,394 | 4 | $20,599 | $82,394 | 1 | |
| Aug 14, 2015 | 34 | $162,277 | +97% | 22 | $7,376 | $244,671 | 2 |
| Aug 21, 2015 | 31 | $255,410 | +57% | 69 | $3,702 | $500,081 | 3 |
| Aug 28, 2015 | 25 | $583,267 | +128% | 795 | $734 | $1,083,348 | 4 |
| Sep 4, 2015 | 36 | $250,258 | -57% | 255 | $981 | $1,333,606 | 5 |
| Sep 11, 2015 | 49 | $75,451 | -70% | 69 | $1,093 | $1,409,057 | 6 |
| Sep 18, 2015 | 65 | $32,214 | -57% | 25 | $1,289 | $1,441,271 | 7 |
| Sep 25, 2015 | 70 | $17,128 | -47% | 18 | $952 | $1,458,399 | 8 |
| Oct 2, 2015 | 86 | $8,354 | -51% | 8 | $1,044 | $1,466,753 | 9 |
| Oct 9, 2015 | 76 | $7,267 | -13% | 11 | $661 | $1,474,020 | 10 |
| Oct 16, 2015 | 94 | $2,753 | -62% | 7 | $393 | $1,476,773 | 11 |
Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com.