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Released
1992 · FILM

Housesitter

A charming con artist infiltrates an architect’s empty house by posing as his wife, then must juggle her elaborate ruse while keeping the unsuspecting man from uncovering the truth.

“She's turning his house into a home...hers!”

Directed by
Frank Oz
Written by
Mark Stein, Brian Grazer
Runtime
102 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

Con artist Gwen moves into Newton's empty home without his knowledge and begins setting up house, posing as his new wife.

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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 John JympsonShot by John A AlonzoScored by Miles GoodmanDesigned by Ida Random

Box Office

1992 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.7× 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

$94.9M

Budget$26.0M
Worldwide gross$94.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $58.5M — 62% of worldwide · International: $36.4M (38%)

Opening weekend: $9.1M — 16% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $13.5M — 23% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,671 theaters

Also known as

  • Housesitter - Lügen haben schöne Beinede
  • Esposa por sorpresaes
  • Fais comme chez toi !fr
  • Moglie a sorpresait

Production & Distribution

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Imagine Entertainment

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