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The VerdictFollow

1982 • R • 2h 9m • Drama • 20th Century Fox

Frank Galvin has one last chance to do something right.

🍅 88% 88% MC 77 LB 4.03 IMDb 7.7

Box office summary

Opening weekend
$101.0K
3-day opening
Domestic total
$54.00M
Final
Domestic legs23.2x from $2.3M first wide weekend
Budget$16M
1982 rank#11
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Cast & crew

Full Lumet filmography
Sidney Lumet Sidney Lumet Director Paul Newman Paul Newman Starring Charlotte Rampling Charlotte Rampling Starring Jack Warden Jack Warden Starring James Mason James Mason Starring Milo O'Shea Milo O'Shea Starring
ScreenplayDavid Mamet Produced byRichard D. Zanuck, David Brown CinematographyAndrzej Bartkowiak Music byJohnny Mandel Studio20th Century Fox

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal
1 Dec 10-12 15 $101.0K — 3 $33,661 $143.3K
2 Dec 17-19 7 $2.3M +2209.1% 615 $3,792 $2.5M
3 Dec 24-26 6 $3.0M +30.7% 615 $4,957 $7.4M
4 Dec 31-Jan 2 5 $4.7M +54.4% 646 $7,285 $16.4M
5 Jan 7-9 3 $4.4M −7.5% 658 $6,613 $22.8M
6 Jan 14-16 3 $3.6M −16.5% 719 $5,050 $28.0M
7 Jan 21-23 3 $3.3M −10.2% 838 $3,893 $32.5M
8 Jan 28-30 3 $2.8M −13.9% 904 $3,106 $36.5M
9 Feb 4-6 5 $2.2M −21.1% 854 $2,594 $39.6M
10 Feb 11-13 7 $1.4M −38.9% 808 $1,676 $41.4M
11 Feb 18-21 10 $1.8M +30.7% 579 $3,057 $43.8M
12 Feb 25-27 9 $1.3M −26.6% 655 $1,985 $45.5M
13 Mar 4-6 7 $1.1M −13.5% 626 $1,796 $47.0M
14 Mar 11-13 8 $919.0K −18.3% 548 $1,677 $48.3M
15 Mar 18-20 9 $745.1K −18.9% 478 $1,559 $49.4M
16 Mar 25-27 16 $430.9K −42.2% 272 $1,584 $50.2M
17 Apr 1-3 15 $428.4K −0.6% 266 $1,611 $50.8M
18 Apr 8-10 14 $744.7K +73.8% 452 $1,647 $51.8M
19 Apr 15-17 17 $521.2K −30.0% 325 $1,604 $52.6M
20 Apr 22-24 18 $388.5K −25.5% 292 $1,330 $53.2M
21 Apr 29-May 1 18 $346.8K −10.7% 272 $1,275 $53.7M
22 May 6-8 20 $174.6K −49.7% 210 $831 $54.0M
Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record
Weekend grossWk 10 · $1.4M
$101.0K
$2.3M
$3.0M
$4.7M
$4.4M
$3.6M
$3.3M
$2.8M
$2.2M
$1.4M
W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10
Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −38.9%
+2209.1%
W1→2
+30.7%
W2→3
+54.4%
W3→4
−7.5%
W4→5
−16.5%
W5→6
−10.2%
W6→7
−13.9%
W7→8
−21.1%
W8→9
−38.9%
W9→10
Steepest −38.9%Biggest gain +2209.1%

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