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Released
2001 · FILM

One Night at McCool's

A seductive drifter convinces an unsuspecting bartender to take the blame for a murder she committed, then spirals into a deadly game of desire and deception as rival suitors and a relentless detective close in on her.

“She's three men over the legal limit.”

Directed by
Harald Zwart
Written by
Stan Seidel
Runtime
93 min
ComedyCrime

Synopsis

On an ordinary night in an ordinary part of town, a beautiful young woman named Jewel enters a bar and begins chatting with the bartender, Randy. The two leave together, but Randy soon gets into a confrontation with Jewel's criminal boyfriend, whom she then shoots dead. She later convinces Randy to take the blame for the murder. However, the situation does not end there, as Randy's cousin, Carl, and the detective assigned to the case also become infatuated with Jewel and drawn into the unfolding events. It appears that every man who meets Jewel falls instantly in love with her, and she uses this to her advantage, causing chaos in her wake. It also seems she will get away with her actions—until Randy decides to hire a hitman.

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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 Bruce CannonShot by Karl Walter LindenlaubScored by Marc ShaimanDesigned by Jon Gary Steele

Box Office

2001 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$13.5M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$13.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $6.3M — 47% of worldwide · International: $7.2M (53%)

Opening weekend: $2.5M — 40% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.4M — 54% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,818 theaters

Also known as

  • Eine Nacht bei McCool'sde
  • Divina pero peligrosaes
  • Divine mais dangereusefr
  • Un corpo da reatoit

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