Reception
The film was critically panned. It currently holds a 9% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 22 reviews (20 negative, 2 positive). Roger Ebert gave the film a half-star of a possible four. Writing: "The movie is so odd, it's almost worth seeing just because we'll never see anything like it again. I hope." Like other films which were released by Orion Pictures several years after they had surpassed their bankruptcy period, Clifford failed to make a profit at the box office in addition to being critically panned. Its domestic gross was only a mere $7 million at the domestic box office.
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