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Released
2014 · FILM

My Old Lady

“He's in the will. She's in the way.”

Directed by
Israel Horovitz
Written by
Israel Horovitz, Jonathan Mason
Runtime
107 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Mathias Gold is a struggling New Yorker who unexpectedly inherits a large apartment in Paris from his estranged father. When he travels to France to sell the property, he is surprised to find that it is occupied by a tenant who has no intention of moving out. The apartment is a viager, a traditional French real estate arrangement with specific resale rules, and the current occupant, the spirited Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, has lived there for many years with her daughter Chloé. Under the terms of the contract, Mathilde is entitled to receive monthly payments from Mathias until her death.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Stephanie AhnShot by Michel AmathieuScored by Mark OrtonDesigned by Pierre Francois Limbosch

Box Office

2014 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× 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

$7.5M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$7.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Eine Erbschaft in Parisde
  • My Old Ladyde
  • My Old Lady - Eine Erbschaft in Parisde

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