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Released
2008 · FILM

My Best Friend's Girl

When his ideal girlfriend breaks up with him for being too intense, a desperate lover forces his best friend into a disastrous rebound date to win her back—only to discover she’s far more formidable than any scheme they can devise.

“It's funny what love can make you do...”

Directed by
Howard Deutch
Written by
Jordan Cahan
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
101 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

Lovestruck Dustin is in a relationship with Alexis, his ideal girlfriend, but when she breaks up with him for being too intense, Dustin takes extreme steps to win her back. He enlists his best friend Tank to take her on what he believes will be the worst rebound date possible—Tank's side job—and Tank reluctantly agrees. However, Alexis proves to be more than a match for Tank.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 27

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 Seth FlaumShot by Jack N GreenScored by John DebneyDesigned by Jane Ann Stewart

Box Office

2008 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.1× 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

$41.6M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$41.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $19.2M — 46% of worldwide · International: $22.4M (54%)

Opening weekend: $8.3M — 43% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $10.7M — 56% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,604 theaters

Also known as

  • Männer sind Schweinede
  • La Copine de mon meilleur amifr
  • La ragazza del mio migliore amicoit

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