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Released
2001 · FILM

Head Over Heels

A shy New Yorker’s life is turned upside‑down when a group of glamorous supermodels give her a makeover and thrust her into the spotlight, only for her to suspect her charming neighbor of murder; now she must uncover the truth before love turns deadly.

“Unleash your inner model.”

Directed by
Mark Waters
Written by
John J Strauss, Ed Decter
Runtime
87 min
ComedyMysteryRomance

Synopsis

Amanda Pierce, an ordinary single woman, unexpectedly finds herself living in a luxurious Manhattan apartment shared with four attractive supermodels. Eager to include Amanda in their lifestyle, the models give her a complete makeover. The transformation proves successful, helping Amanda connect with her charming neighbor, Jim Winston. However, this positive turn of events is disrupted when Amanda, while secretly watching Jim, believes she witnesses him committing a brutal crime.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Cara SilvermanShot by Mark PlummerScored by Randy EdelmanDesigned by Perry Andelin Blake

Box Office

2001 · 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

$13.1M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$13.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $10.4M — 79% of worldwide · International: $2.7M (21%)

Opening weekend: $4.8M — 46% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.7M — 54% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,338 theaters

Also known as

  • Hals über Kopfde
  • Folles de luifr
  • Top model per casoit

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