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Released
1989 · FILM

Crimes and Misdemeanors

An esteemed ophthalmologist plots murder to end an illicit affair while a struggling documentary filmmaker courts a television producer and confronts his self‑absorbed boss, forcing both men into a high‑stakes moral showdown.

“It's about love and reality. Faith and delusion. Good and evil. Success and failure.”

Directed by
Woody Allen, Richard Patrick
Written by
Woody Allen
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
104 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

A renowned ophthalmologist attempts to end an adulterous relationship, which culminates in murder; a frustrated documentary filmmaker courts an attractive television producer while producing a film about her self‑centered boss.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 180+ credited

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 Susan E MorseShot by Sven NykvistDesigned by Santo LoquastoSound by Lee DichterCostumes by Jeffrey Kurland

Box Office

1989 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 1.0× 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

$18.3M

Budget$19.0M
Worldwide gross$18.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $911K — 5% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.3M — 7% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 66 theaters

Also known as

  • Verbrechen und andere Kleinigkeitende
  • Crimes et Délitsfr
  • Crimini e misfattiit

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