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Released
1995 · FILM

Boys on the Side

A nightclub singer teams up with an AIDS‑stricken real‑estate agent and a friend fleeing an abusive boyfriend for a cross‑country road trip, forcing the trio to confront their starkly different lives while fighting illness, danger, and their own prejudices to survive together.

“A motion picture that celebrates the art of survival, the gift of laughter and the miracle of friendship.”

Directed by
Herbert Ross
Written by
Don Roos
Runtime
115 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

After ending her relationship with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer named Jane, responds to a personal ad placed by Robin, a real estate agent living with AIDS, who is looking for a travel companion for a cross-country trip. As they travel from New York City to Los Angeles, they make a stop in Pittsburgh to pick up Jane's friend Holly, who is attempting to flee an abusive relationship. With their very different personalities, the three women must work through their differences to support each other along the way.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Michael R MillerShot by Donald E ThorinScored by David NewmanDesigned by Ken Adam

Box Office

1995 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× 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

$23.4M

Budget$21.0M
Worldwide gross$23.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $23.4M — 100% of worldwide · International: $10K (0%)

Opening weekend: $4.8M — 21% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $6.4M — 27% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,322 theaters

Also known as

  • Kaffee, Milch & Zuckerde
  • Kaffee, Milch und Zuckerde
  • Sólo ellas... los chicos a un ladoes
  • Avec ou sans hommesfr
  • A proposito di donneit

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