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A Fish Called WandaFollow

1988 • R • 1h 48m • Comedy, Crime • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

A tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood.

🍅 96% 84% MC 80 LB 3.74 IMDb 7.5
CS A

Box office summary

Opening weekend
$115.4K
Limited · 3 theaters
Domestic total
$63.50M
Final
Domestic legs13.2x from $4.8M first wide weekend
1988 rank#13
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Cast & crew

John Cleese John Cleese Starring Jamie Lee Curtis Jamie Lee Curtis Starring Kevin Kline Kevin Kline Starring Michael Palin Michael Palin Starring
ScreenplayJohn Cleese Produced byMichael Shamberg CinematographyAlan Hume Music byJohn Du Prez StudioMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal
1 Jul 15-17 — $115.4K — 3 $38,473 $115.4K
4 Aug 5-7 5 $4.8M — 616 $7,794 $8.5M
5 Aug 12-14 4 $5.3M +9.5% 1,114 $4,718 $16.7M
6 Aug 19-21 4 $4.4M −16.2% 1,215 $3,627 $24.4M
7 Aug 26-28 3 $3.8M −14.4% 1,223 $3,083 $30.8M
8 Sep 2-4 3 $5.1M +35.2% 1,187 $4,295 $37.8M
9 Sep 9-11 3 $2.8M −44.9% 1,214 $2,312 $41.5M
10 Sep 16-18 1 $2.6M −9.0% 1,207 $2,117 $45.1M
11 Sep 23-25 2 $2.2M −13.7% 1,164 $1,895 $48.3M
12 Sep 30-Oct 2 3 $2.1M −7.0% 1,122 $1,828 $51.1M
13 Oct 7-9 5 $1.6M −20.2% 959 $1,707 $53.3M
14 Oct 14-16 6 $1.2M −29.1% 937 $1,239 $54.8M
15 Oct 21-23 8 $1.0M −10.0% 747 $1,398 $56.3M
16 Oct 28-30 11 $791.6K −24.2% 695 $1,139 $57.4M
Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record
Weekend grossWk 10 · $2.6M
$115.4K
$4.8M
$5.3M
$4.4M
$3.8M
$5.1M
$2.8M
$2.6M
W1W4W5W6W7W8W9W10
Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −9.0%
+9.5%
W4→5
−16.2%
W5→6
−14.4%
W6→7
+35.2%
W7→8
−44.9%
W8→9
−9.0%
W9→10
Steepest −44.9%Biggest gain +35.2%

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