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Released
2003 · FILM

Anything Else

An aspiring New York writer falls head‑over‑heels for an impulsive woman and must navigate his romantic idealism against her chaotic spontaneity before his own future—both personal and professional—collapses.

In any relationship, one person always does the heavy lifting.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
108 min
ComedyRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

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 Alisa LepselterShot by Darius KhondjiDesigned by Santo Loquasto

Box Office

2003 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$13.6M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$13.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $3.2M 24% of worldwide · International: $10.4M (76%)

Also known as

  • La Vie et tout le restefr

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