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Released
1984 · FILM

Falling in Love

A lonely husband and a restless wife forge an unexpected bond after a chance holiday encounter, but as their friendship deepens into forbidden romance, they must confront the painful choices between duty and desire.

Sometimes magic is the only thing that's real.

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Runtime
106 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

Frank and Molly meet by chance while shopping for Christmas. This brief encounter begins to change their lives when they recognize each other months later on a train ride home and enjoy each other's company. Despite both being married—Frank has two young children—they start meeting more frequently, and their friendship becomes the most valuable part of their lives.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 KahnShot by Peter SuschitzkyScored by Dave GrusinDesigned by Santo Loquasto

Box Office

1984 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$11.1M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$11.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.3M 21% of its US run.

Peak 305 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Liebe verfallende
  • Innamorarsiit

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