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The Buddy System

1984 · Glenn A. Jordan · Alain Chammas · 1 hr 50 min

A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the mother. When one of the officer's inventions takes off, he chooses the girl and shatters the friendship with the boy and his mother. Only at the last possible moment does he figure out what he's sacrificed, and attempts to get it back.

Comedy Drama Romance

Cast Salaries

Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Richard Dreyfuss 1984 $300,300 $930,381 (est)
Susan Sarandon 1984 $200,200 $620,254 (est)
Nancy Allen 1984 $140,140 $434,178 (est)
Jean Stapleton 1984 $100,100 $310,127 (est)

Box Office Reported grosses are direct imports. Inflation-adjusted values use imported adjusted totals when available, otherwise they use the yearly U.S. CPI table you maintain in WordPress.

Inflation-adjusted values are shown in 2025 dollars when CPI data is available.

Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Domestic Domestic theatrical box office gross. 1984 $1,820,049 $5,638,824
International International theatrical box office gross. 1984 $0 $0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 1984 $1,820,049 $5,495,182

Earnings / Profitability

Estimated revenues and expenses for films based on currently imported reported and estimated fields. Inflation-adjusted values use the CPI table when direct adjusted values are not present in the export.

Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Revenues
Theatrical Net Revenue Estimated distributor theatrical revenue using the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1984 $855,423 (est) $2,650,247 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1984 $0 $0
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1984 $0 $0
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1984 $131,229 $406,570
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: VHS $41,721 1984 $41,721 $129,259
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1984 $488,277 (est) $1,512,764 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1984 $1,516,650 $4,698,841
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 1984 $2,002,000 N/A
Print & Advertising (P&A) P&A Estimated using Machine Learning sourceSource: ML P&A estimate (peer+ridge)Machine-learned P&A estimate based on peer comps and regression inputs. Reestimate Prior Estimate | Covid Mult: 1 | Peer Count: 0 | Reg Box Pred: $1,044,858 | Reg Main Pred: $2,333,417 1984 $1,330,000 (est) $4,120,568 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1984 $0 (est) $0 (est)
Residuals Residual and related distribution expense line. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1984 $28,210 (est) $87,398 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1984 $228,228 (est) $707,089 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1984 $3,588,438 $11,117,595
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 1984 $-2,071,788 $-6,418,754

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