View box office forecast and results and data from online trends

View General Movie information including synopsis, ratings and a gallery of images and videos

Joyland

2023
NR
2h 6m
Drama

The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.

View Summaries

Release Date:4/7/2023 | Theatrical Limited (38 locations)

Box Office

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$7,191
Total Worldwide:
$1,136,283

View Advanced Movie Data Including Online Trends, Forecast And Box Office Results

Box Office
Advance Tickets
Awareness
Interest
Video Views
Wiki Views

Box Office

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$7,191
Total Worldwide:
$1,136,283

Joyland

($1m)

	Weekend		Weekly		Locations
Week	Gross $	% Chg.	Gross $	% Chg.	#	Chg.	Average $	to-date $
1 \| 4/7/2023-4/13/2023	$20,638	-	$30,645	-	1	-	$30,645	$30,645
2 \| 4/14/2023-4/20/2023	$9,194	-69.8 %	$15,139	-64 %	1	-37	$15,139	$45,784
3 \| 4/21/2023-4/27/2023	$38,310	432.7 %	$55,004	333.3 %	8	-6	$6,876	$100,788
4 \| 4/28/2023-5/4/2023	$34,783	150.9 %	$54,221	157.9 %	33	22	$1,643	$155,009
5 \| 5/5/2023-5/11/2023	$30,421	-100 %	$42,095	154 %	38	26	$1,108	$197,104
6 \| 5/12/2023-5/18/2023	$11,168	-70.8 %	$19,112	-65.3 %	25	17	$764	$216,216
7 \| 5/19/2023-5/25/2023	$13,866	-32.8 %	$21,024	-31.4 %	11	10	$1,911	$237,240
8 \| 5/26/2023-6/1/2023	$15,213	65.5 %	$23,167	53 %	9	8	$2,574	$260,407
9 \| 6/2/2023-6/8/2023	$0	-100 %	$16,576	-13.3 %	12	-13	$1,381	$276,983
10 \| 6/9/2023-6/15/2023	$7,191	0 %	$12,693	-	14	0	$907	$289,676
11 \| 6/16/2023-6/22/2023	$2,843	-81.3 %	$6,299	-72.8 %	10	1	$630	$295,975
		Total	$295,975

Total Includes Full Week Grosses for Weeks

Director & Top Cast

Summaries

Storyline

As the happily-patriarchal Rana family longs for the birth of a baby boy, the youngest of the Rana men secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and finds himself falling for a fiercely ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story slowly illuminates the entire Rana family’s desire for a sexual rebellion. The extended Rana family lives together in a house that the tradition-minded patriarch, Abba, says has been theirs since before the Partition. The household includes his two sons, Saleem and Haider, their respective wives, and Saleem’s small children. The younger son, Haider (Ali Junejo), who is already married but without work, reluctantly takes a job that a friend arranges for him in a burlesque theater. Too embarrassed to tell his father that his job is dancing in a troupe, he says that he is the manager. With Haider employed, his wife Mumtaz (Rasti Farooq) is forced to quit her job so that she can stay at home. As Haider begins to explore an infatuation with Biba (Alina Khan), the larger-than-life trans woman who runs the show, how much the entire family struggles with the constrictions of traditional family and gender expectations in Pakistan becomes painfully clear. Apparently close-knit, living in close quarters, the family members are separated by gulfs of loneliness and by secrets, unable to acknowledge the suffering or the desire of the others–until it is too late. When Haider’s wife Mumtaz tells him that she is pregnant, they cry together in a stark scene that shows the complexity of their relationship, which is suffused with a genuine tenderness that cannot bridge the gap between them. Likewise, Haider’s short-lived relationship with Biba is never consummated but ends abruptly in an awkward moment that reveals Haider’s naivete’ and misunderstanding of Biba’s desires and, more importantly, his own. Haider has recurrently linked love with forbidden love (he played Juliet in a school play, he says) and with death. At issue is the impossibility of acting on his own, unstated, queer desire-and Haider never does. In this regard, it’s worth noting that the film’s opening sequence that shows Haider playing with his nieces while wearing a sheet as a ghost not only anticipates the closing sequence, it suggests that Haider already occupies a kind of death-in-life. Beautifully filmed with textures of dancing light reminiscent of the patterns and colors of fine saris and shalwar-kameezes, the movie was aptly called a “love letter to Pakistan” by Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Laureate who was an executive producer for the film. — D. Alan Dean

Headlines

Joyland

Box Office

Results

Box Office

Results

Director & Top Cast

Summaries

Storyline

Headlines

‘Joyland’ Rocks Film Forum In Solid Arthouse Weekend – Specialty Box Office

‘Joyland’ Rocks Film Forum In Solid Arthouse Weekend – Specialty Box Office

The Funny, Forward, and Bracingly Political “Joyland”

Priyanka Chopra And Anjula Acharia Celebrate South Asian Excellence At The Os...

Malala Yousafzai Praises Women in Hollywood at the 2023 Oscars: Watch

Spirit Awards: 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' Wins Big, Breaks Record

Joyland

Box Office

Results

Box Office

Results

Director & Top Cast

Summaries

Storyline

Headlines

‘Joyland’ Rocks Film Forum In Solid Arthouse Weekend – Specialty Box Office

‘Joyland’ Rocks Film Forum In Solid Arthouse Weekend – Specialty Box Office

The Funny, Forward, and Bracingly Political “Joyland”

Videos and Images forJoyland

Videos

Images