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Released
1999 · FILM

Entrapment

Insurance investigator Virginia “Gin” Baker must outwit legendary thief Robert “Mac” MacDougal and pull off a high‑stakes heist to recover a stolen Rembrandt before the crime syndicate that hired her catches up, risking everything in a deadly game of deception and trust.

The trap is set.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
112 min
ActionCrimeRomance

Synopsis

Two thieves who move within high society attempt to outwit each other, ultimately finding themselves falling in love.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 32

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 Terry RawlingsShot by Phil MeheuxScored by Christopher YoungDesigned by Norman Garwood

Box Office

1999 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 3.2× 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

$212.4M

Budget$66.0M
Worldwide gross$212.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $87.7M 41% of worldwide · International: $124.7M (59%)

Opening weekend: $20.1M 23% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $26.1M30% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,814 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Verlockende Fallede
  • La trampaes
  • Haute Voltigefr

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