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Released
1986 · FILM

9½ Weeks

An ambitious New York art gallery assistant plunges into a seductive, boundary‑pushing liaison with a charismatic Wall Street broker, only to find their escalating games threaten both her control and her sense of self.

They Broke Every Rule.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
117 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

A woman working as an assistant at an art gallery becomes involved in a detached affair with a man. Their relationship is primarily defined by sexual encounters and games, with little knowledge of each other's personal lives, leading to increasing complications.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 30

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Caroline BiggerstaffShot by Peter BiziouScored by Jack NitzscheDesigned by Ken Davis

Box Office

1986 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$6.7M

Budget$17.0M
Worldwide gross$6.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • 9 1/2 Wochende
  • 9½ Wochende
  • Neuneinhalb Wochende
  • 9½ Weeksen
  • Nine 1/2 Weeksen
  • Nueve semanas y mediaes
  • 9 semaines 1/2fr
  • 9 settimane e 1/2it
  • 9 settimane e ½it

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