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Released
1993 · FILM

Fatal Instinct

Sex, murder and revenge were never this funny.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
90 min
ComedyCrimeThriller

Synopsis

Ned Ravine is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally represents the delinquents he arrests. He meets the seductive Lola Cain during an assignment and quickly begins an affair with her. At the same time, Ned's wife, Lana, is involved in an affair of her own. Lana and her lover are plotting to murder Ned through a carefully orchestrated scheme in order to collect on his triple indemnity life insurance policy.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Bud MolinShot by Gabriel BeristainScored by Richard GibbsDesigned by Sandy Veneziano

Box Office

1993 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$7.8M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$7.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Allein unter Idiotende
  • Crazy Instinctde

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