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Released
1984 · FILM

Blame It on Rio

A man's vacation in Rio takes a chaotic turn when he falls for his best friend's daughter, sparking a farcical chase to avoid the furious father he's sure will hunt him down.

“She's the hottest thing on the beach. She's also his best friend's daughter!”

Directed by
Stanley Donen
Written by
Charlie Peters, Larry Gelbart
Runtime
100 min
ComedyRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Matthew Hollis is a man on holiday in Rio de Janeiro with his best friend. Both men are accompanied by their teenage daughters. When Matthew becomes infatuated with his friend's affectionate daughter, Jennifer, they begin a secret, though somewhat one-sided, relationship. Jennifer's father becomes enraged upon discovering the "older man" in his daughter's life and decides to track him down, with Matthew's help.

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Principal cast & crew: 17

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 George HivelyShot by Reynaldo Villalobos

Box Office

1984 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.1× 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

$18.6M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$18.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.3M — 23% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.3M — 23% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,201 theaters

Also known as

  • Schuld daran ist Riode
  • La Faute à Riofr
  • Quel giorno a Rioit

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