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Scent of a WomanFollow

1992 • R • 2h 36m • Drama • Universal Pictures

Frank Slade has a plan. It includes a weekend of fast cars, the tango, high living and a loaded forty five. And Charlie is coming along for the ride.

🍅 82% 92% MC 57 LB 3.96 IMDb 8.0

Box office summary

Opening weekend
$6.50M
3-day opening
Domestic total
$63.10M
Final
Worldwide total
$134.00M
$71.00M international
Domestic legs9.7x from $6.5M first wide weekend
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Cast & crew

Al Pacino Al Pacino Starring Chris O'Donnell Chris O'Donnell Starring James Rebhorn James Rebhorn Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman Starring Bradley Whitford Bradley Whitford Starring
ScreenplayBo Goldman Produced byMartin Brest CinematographyDonald E. Thorin Music byThomas Newman StudioUniversal Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal
1 Dec 25-27 14 $357.5K — 20 $17,873 $480.3K
2 Jan 1-3 16 $493.8K +38.1% 20 $24,690 $1.3M
3 Jan 8-10 3 $6.5M +1,211.5% 1,083 $5,980 $8.1M
4 Jan 15-17 2 $5.5M −14.5% 1,212 $4,570 $16.0M
5 Jan 22-24 4 $4.7M −14.3% 1,244 $3,815 $22.8M
6 Jan 29-31 3 $4.1M −12.9% 1,252 $3,300 $28.7M
7 Feb 5-7 6 $3.8M −7.9% 1,252 $3,040 $33.9M
8 Feb 12-14 3 $2.8M −27.3% 1,208 $2,290 $37.6M
9 Feb 19-21 8 $2.9M +6.1% 1,208 $2,430 $41.7M
10 Feb 26-28 8 $2.5M −15.2% 1,248 $1,995 $45.0M
11 Mar 5-7 12 $1.7M −30.6% 1,100 $1,570 $47.4M
12 Mar 12-14 12 $1.1M −35.7% 918 $1,210 $49.1M
13 Mar 19-21 13 $1.2M +8.4% 759 $1,585 $50.8M
14 Mar 26-28 12 $1.3M +9.5% 766 $1,720 $52.6M
15 Apr 2-4 11 $1.6M +24.1% 766 $2,135 $54.8M
16 Apr 9-11 13 $1.2M −29.6% 685 $1,680 $56.5M
17 Apr 16-18 14 $1.0M −11.5% 720 $1,415 $57.9M
18 Apr 23-25 16 $659.7K −35.3% 597 $1,105 $58.9M
19 Apr 30-May 2 17 $500.0K −24.2% 463 $1,080 $59.6M
20 May 7-9 14 $581.1K +16.2% 745 $780 $60.3M
21 May 14-16 13 $531.2K −8.6% 664 $800 $61.1M
22 May 21-23 16 $334.5K −37% 452 $740 $61.7M
23 May 28-30 4 $214.8K −35.8% 279 $770 $62.0M
24 Jun 4-6 17 $137.7K −35.9% 194 $710 $62.3M
25 Jun 11-13 16 $109.1K −20.8% 164 $665 $62.4M
26 Jun 18-20 16 $78.1K −28.4% 123 $635 $62.5M
27 Jun 25-27 14 $50.6K −35.2% 85 $595 $62.6M
28 Jul 2-4 6 $42.0K −16.9% 80 $525 $62.7M
29 Jul 9-11 16 $37.3K −11.1% 77 $485 $62.7M
30 Jul 16-18 15 $31.4K −15.8% 74 $425 $62.8M
31 Jul 23-25 17 $29.5K −6.1% 72 $410 $62.9M
32 Jul 30-Aug 1 19 $29.6K +0.4% 75 $395 $63.0M
33 Aug 6-8 20 $26.6K −10.2% 70 $380 $63.1M
Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record
Weekend grossWk 10 · $2.5M
$357.5K
$493.8K
$6.5M
$5.5M
$4.7M
$4.1M
$3.8M
$2.8M
$2.9M
$2.5M
W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10
Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −15.2%
+38.1%
W1→2
+1,211.5%
W2→3
−14.5%
W3→4
−14.3%
W4→5
−12.9%
W5→6
−7.9%
W6→7
−27.3%
W7→8
+6.1%
W8→9
−15.2%
W9→10
Steepest −27.3%Biggest gain +1,211.5%

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