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2001 • PG-13 • 1h 52m • Drama, Music, Romance • Paramount Pictures

The only person you need to be is yourself.

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Box office summary

Opening weekend

$23.40M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$91.10M

Final

Worldwide total

$132.00M

$40.60M international

Domestic legs3.88x

Budget$13.0M

2001 rank#25

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Cast & crew

Julia Stiles

Julia Stiles Starring

Sean Patrick Thomas

Sean Patrick Thomas Starring

Kerry Washington

Kerry Washington Starring

Terry Kinney

Terry Kinney Starring

ScreenplayDuane Adler, Cheryl Edwards Produced byRobert W. Cort, David Madden CinematographyRobbie Greenberg MusicMark Isham StudioParamount Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Jan 12-14 1 $23.4M — 2,230 $10,513 $23.4M

2 Jan 19-21 1 $15.4M −34.5% 2,539 $6,052 $46.2M

3 Jan 26-28 2 $9.8M −36.4% 2,561 $3,817 $59.3M

4 Feb 2-4 4 $7.2M −26.6% 2,570 $2,790 $68.5M

5 Feb 9-11 6 $4.8M −32.9% 2,506 $1,921 $74.5M

6 Feb 16-19 Presidents' Day 11 $4.0M −17.7% 2,052 $1,932 $79.8M

7 Feb 23-25 12 $2.3M −42.3% 1,728 $1,323 $82.7M

8 Mar 2-4 14 $1.4M −38.1% 1,210 $1,169 $84.6M

9 Mar 9-11 16 $1.1M −24.0% 1,023 $1,051 $86.0M

10 Mar 16-18 16 $846.1K −21.4% 862 $981 $87.3M

11 Mar 23-25 19 $540.0K −36.2% 615 $878 $88.0M

12 Mar 30-Apr 1 24 $332.5K −38.4% 439 $757 $88.5M

13 Apr 6-8 28 $208.8K −37.2% 220 $949 $88.8M

14 Apr 13-15 61 $11.8K −94.4% 147 $80 $89.0M

15 Apr 20-22 39 $80.0K +578.8% 117 $683 $89.2M

16 May 25-27 16 $362.7K +353.2% 320 $1,133 $89.8M

17 Jun 1-3 20 $214.1K −41.0% 272 $787 $90.2M

18 Jun 8-10 17 $180.9K −15.5% 243 $744 $90.5M

19 Jun 15-17 22 $123.4K −31.8% 213 $579 $90.7M

20 Jun 22-24 29 $83.4K −32.4% 172 $484 $90.9M

21 Jun 29-Jul 1 38 $55.4K −33.6% 120 $461 $91.0M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Jan 12 #1 $7.5M — $7.5M 2,230 $3,368 1

Sat Jan 13 #1 $9.1M +22% $16.6M 2,230 $4,093 2

Sun Jan 14 #1 $6.8M −25% $23.4M 2,230 $3,051 3

Mon Jan 15 #1 $4.1M −40% $27.5M 2,230 $1,830 4

Tue Jan 16 #1 $1.3M −69% $28.8M 2,230 $560 5

Wed Jan 17 #1 $952.8K −24% $29.7M 2,230 $427 6

Thu Jan 18 #1 $1.1M +20% $30.9M 2,230 $512 7

Fri Jan 19 #1 $4.8M +322% −36% $35.7M 2,230 $2,163 8

Sat Jan 20 #1 $6.8M +41% −26% $42.5M 2,539 $2,672 9

Sun Jan 21 #1 $3.5M −49% −49% $46.2M 2,539 $1,367 10

Mon Jan 22 #1 $806.3K −77% −80% $47.0M 2,539 $317 11

Tue Jan 23 #2 $887.9K +10% −29% $47.9M 2,539 $349 12

Wed Jan 24 #2 $735.4K −17% −23% $48.7M 2,539 $289 13

Thu Jan 25 #1 $878.6K +19% −23% $49.5M 2,539 $346 14

Fri Jan 26 #2 $3.1M +254% −36% $52.7M 2,561 $1,214 15

Sat Jan 27 #2 $4.7M +50% −31% $57.3M 2,561 $1,817 16

Sun Jan 28 #2 $1.6M −66% −54% $59.3M 2,561 $625 17

Mon Jan 29 #5 $518.5K −68% −36% $59.8M 2,561 $202 18

Tue Jan 30 #5 $553.4K +7% −38% $60.4M 2,561 $216 19

Wed Jan 31 #4 $465.3K −16% −37% $60.9M 2,561 $181 20

Thu Feb 1 #4 $473.4K +2% −46% $61.3M 2,561 $184 21

Fri Feb 2 #3 $2.1M +346% −32% $63.4M 2,570 $821 22

Sat Feb 3 #4 $3.2M +53% −31% $66.7M 2,570 $1,252 23

Sun Feb 4 #6 $1.6M −50% +1% $68.5M 2,570 $626 24

Mon Feb 5 #7 $278.1K −83% −46% $68.8M 2,570 $108 25

Tue Feb 6 #7 $354.2K +27% −36% $69.1M 2,570 $137 26

Wed Feb 7 #8 $268.2K −24% −42% $69.4M 2,570 $104 27

Thu Feb 8 #6 $292.3K +9% −38% $69.7M 2,570 $113 28

Fri Feb 9 #5 $1.3M +343% −39% $71.0M 2,570 $503 29

Sat Feb 10 #6 $2.2M +69% −32% $73.2M 2,570 $851 30

Sun Feb 11 #7 $1.2M −47% −29% $74.5M 2,506 $459 31

Mon Feb 12 #7 $272.0K −76% −2% $74.8M 2,506 $108 32

Tue Feb 13 #9 $224.7K −17% −37% $75.0M 2,506 $89 33

Wed Feb 14 #9 $530.8K +136% +98% $75.5M 2,506 $211 34

Thu Feb 15 #8 $274.3K −48% −6% $75.8M 2,506 $109 35

Mon Feb 19 #11 $560.2K — +106% $79.8M 2,052 $273 39

Tue Feb 20 #11 $242.5K −57% +8% $80.0M 2,052 $118 40

Wed Feb 21 #11 $201.6K −17% −62% $80.2M 2,052 $98 41

Thu Feb 22 #11 $217.2K +8% −21% $80.4M 2,052 $105 42

Sun Feb 25 #13 $503.0K — $82.7M 1,728 $291 45

Mon Feb 26 #14 $118.1K −77% −79% $82.8M 1,728 $68 46

Tue Feb 27 #14 $126.0K +7% −48% $83.0M 1,728 $72 47

Wed Feb 28 #14 $106.7K −15% −47% $83.1M 1,728 $61 48

Thu Mar 1 #13 $132.4K +24% −39% $83.2M 1,728 $76 49

Sun Mar 4 #15 $306.0K — −39% $84.6M 1,210 $252 52

Mon Mar 5 #14 $82.8K −73% −30% $84.7M 1,210 $68 53

Tue Mar 6 #14 $78.6K −5% −38% $84.8M 1,210 $64 54

Wed Mar 7 #14 $75.7K −4% −29% $84.9M 1,210 $62 55

Thu Mar 8 #14 $82.2K +9% −38% $84.9M 1,210 $67 56

Sun Mar 11 #16 $258.0K — −16% $86.0M 1,023 $252 59

Mon Mar 12 #16 $93.7K −64% +13% $86.1M 1,023 $91 60

Tue Mar 13 #16 $97.5K +4% +24% $86.2M 1,023 $95 61

Wed Mar 14 #16 $91.4K −6% +21% $86.3M 1,023 $89 62

Mon Mar 19 #17 $58.0K — −38% $87.3M 862 $67 67

Tue Mar 20 #18 $57.8K n/c −41% $87.4M 862 $67 68

Wed Mar 21 #18 $54.8K −5% −40% $87.4M 862 $63 69

Thu Mar 22 #17 $65.3K +19% $87.5M 862 $75 70

Sun Mar 25 #19 $115.0K — $88.0M 615 $186 73

Mon Mar 26 #19 $34.6K −70% −40% $88.1M 615 $56 74

Tue Mar 27 #20 $37.6K +9% −35% $88.1M 615 $61 75

Wed Mar 28 #19 $36.9K −2% −33% $88.1M 615 $59 76

Thu Mar 29 #19 $39.8K +8% −39% $88.2M 615 $64 77

Mon May 28 #14 $101.3K — $89.9M 320 $316 137

Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record

Cumulative total$87.5M

Jan 12Jan 26Feb 9Feb 28Mar 22

Weekend grossWk 10 · $846.1K

$23.4M

$15.4M

$9.8M

$7.2M

$4.8M

$4.0M

$2.3M

$1.4M

$1.1M

$846.1K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 2,570 → 862 −66.5%

2,230 open862 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −21.4%

−34.5%

W1→2

−36.4%

W2→3

−26.6%

W3→4

−32.9%

W4→5

−17.7%

W5→6

−42.3%

W6→7

−38.1%

W7→8

−24.0%

W8→9

−21.4%

W9→10

Steepest −42.3%Best hold −17.7%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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