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Released
2005 · FILM

Guess Who

A confident African‑American woman brings her white fiancé home, determined to win over her skeptical family while navigating the cultural clash and unexpected revelations that threaten their future together.

Some in-laws were made to be broken.

Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
105 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

A young African-American woman brings her fiancé home to meet her parents, but she has not mentioned one important detail—he is white.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 37

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 Paul SeydorShot by Karl Walter LindenlaubScored by John MurphyDesigned by Paul Peters

Box Office

2005 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 2.9× 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

$103.1M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$103.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $68.9M 67% of worldwide · International: $34.2M (33%)

Opening weekend: $20.7M 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $28.3M41% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,147 theaters

Also known as

  • Guess who - Meine Tochter kriegst du nicht!de
  • Black/Whitefr
  • Indovina chiit

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