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1982 • PG • 1h 56m • Comedy, Romance • Columbia Pictures

What do you get when you cross a hopelessly straight starving actor with a dynamite red sequined dress? You get America's hottest new actress.

🍅 91% 81% MC 88 LB 3.76 IMDb 7.4

Box office summary

Opening weekend
$5.50M
3-day opening
Domestic total
$177.20M
Final
Domestic legs32.0x
Budget$15M
1982 rank#2
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Cast & crew

Full Pollack filmography
Sydney Pollack Sydney Pollack Director Dustin Hoffman Dustin Hoffman Starring Jessica Lange Jessica Lange Starring Teri Garr Teri Garr Starring Dabney Coleman Dabney Coleman Starring Charles Durning Charles Durning Starring
ScreenplayLarry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal Produced bySydney Pollack, Dick Richards CinematographyOwen Roizman Music byDave Grusin StudioColumbia Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal
1 Dec 17-19 1 $5.5M — 943 $5,875 $5.5M
2 Dec 24-26 1 $7.5M +34.8% 964 $7,748 $18.1M
3 Dec 31-Jan 2 1 $11.2M +50.3% 1,020 $11,003 $39.9M
4 Jan 7-9 1 $10.6M −6.0% 1,115 $9,465 $55.2M
5 Jan 14-16 1 $9.5M −10.1% 1,190 $7,972 $69.3M
6 Jan 21-23 1 $8.4M −11.4% 1,214 $6,925 $81.2M
7 Jan 28-30 1 $7.3M −12.9% 1,222 $5,995 $91.6M
8 Feb 4-6 1 $6.5M −11.0% 1,222 $5,338 $100.4M
9 Feb 11-13 1 $4.7M −27.2% 1,215 $3,907 $106.5M
10 Feb 18-20 1 $7.5M +58.5% 1,197 $6,286 $116.1M
11 Feb 25-27 1 $5.2M −30.4% 1,216 $4,306 $122.9M
12 Mar 4-6 1 $4.3M −16.9% 1,221 $3,562 $128.6M
13 Mar 11-13 1 $4.0M −7.0% 1,214 $3,331 $134.0M
14 Mar 18-20 2 $3.6M −11.5% 1,185 $3,021 $138.7M
15 Mar 25-27 4 $3.1M −12.6% 1,027 $3,045 $143.2M
16 Apr 1-3 4 $2.9M −6.1% 1,049 $2,800 $147.2M
17 Apr 8-10 1 $3.4M +16.8% 1,092 $3,142 $151.8M
18 Apr 15-17 3 $3.1M −9.6% 1,064 $2,916 $155.7M
19 Apr 22-24 3 $2.6M −16.3% 976 $2,663 $159.1M
20 Apr 29-May 1 3 $2.0M −24.9% 865 $2,256 $161.4M
21 May 6-8 4 $1.5M −20.7% 805 $1,922 $163.5M
22 May 13-15 6 $1.6M +0.8% 759 $2,055 $165.3M
23 May 20-22 9 $1.2M −21.7% 689 $1,773 $166.9M
24 May 27-29 6 $2.4M +99.7% 835 $2,921 $169.9M
25 Jun 3-5 10 $1.3M −47.6% 775 $1,650 $171.5M
26 Jun 10-12 9 $948.3K −25.9% 723 $1,312 $173.0M
27 Jun 17-19 10 $730.9K −22.9% 723 $1,011 $174.1M
28 Jun 24-26 13 $589.3K −19.4% 640 $921 $175.1M
29 Jul 1-3 14 $625.9K +6.2% 407 $1,538 $176.2M
Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record
Weekend grossWk 10 · $7.5M
$5.5M
$7.5M
$11.2M
$10.6M
$9.5M
$8.4M
$7.3M
$6.5M
$4.7M
$7.5M
W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10
Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · +58.5%
+34.8%
W1→2
+50.3%
W2→3
−6.0%
W3→4
−10.1%
W4→5
−11.4%
W5→6
−12.9%
W6→7
−11.0%
W7→8
−27.2%
W8→9
+58.5%
W9→10
Steepest −27.2%Biggest gain +58.5%

Records held

All records
#3 Most weekends in the top 10All-time 27 weekends #4 Most weeks at #1All-time 14 weeks

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