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Released
1994 · FILM

Color of Night

A color‑blind psychiatrist takes over his murdered friend's therapy group and must outwit a hidden killer while entangled with a seductive stranger who may be the key to the murders.

“In the heat of desire, love can turn to deception. Nothing is what it seems when day turns into night.”

Directed by
Richard Rush
Written by
Billy Ray, Matthew Chapman
Runtime
121 min
DramaMysteryRomance

Synopsis

A color-blind psychiatrist becomes the target of an unknown killer after assuming leadership of his murdered friend's therapy group, and becomes involved in a passionate relationship with a mysterious woman who may be linked to the crime.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Jack HofstraShot by Dietrich LohmannScored by Dominic FrontiereDesigned by James L Schoppe

Box Office

1994 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$19.7M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$19.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.6M — 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $9.4M — 48% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,740 theaters

Also known as

  • Color Of Nightde
  • The Color of Nighten
  • El color de la nochees
  • Il colore della notteit

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