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Released
1933 · FILM

Dinner at Eight

A high-society New York couple hosts a lavish dinner party to mask their crumbling marriage and financial scandal, but as secrets unravel and tensions rise, the night spirals into chaos with shocking revelations.

“HERE IS THE SCREEN'S CLIMAX OF GLAMOR AND THRILL THAT RAN OVER A YEAR ON BROADWAY! THE STAGE SMASH NOW A SENSATIONAL FILM TRIUMPH!”

Directed by
George Cukor
Written by
Frances Marion, Herman J Mankiewicz
Runtime
111 min
Drama

Synopsis

A New York socialite, driven by ambition, organizes an elaborate dinner party while her husband, Oliver, a businessman, struggles with financial difficulties, straining their relationship. At the same time, their affluent friends and acquaintances, such as the stern Dan Packard and his alluring wife, Kitty, navigate their personal complications, culminating in disclosures during the highly anticipated event.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Ben LewisShot by William H DanielsScored by William Axt

Box Office

1933 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.0× 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

$2.2M

Budget$435K
Worldwide gross$2.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Dinner um achtde
  • Freitag Abend um 8de
  • Cena a las ochoes
  • Les invités de 8 heuresfr
  • Les Invités de huit heuresfr
  • Pranzo alle ottoit

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