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Released
1997 · FILM

One Night Stand

“Sometimes an entire life can change in just one night.”

Directed by
Mike Figgis
Written by
Mike Figgis
Runtime
102 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle earns a solid living directing commercials and enjoys a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and their two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he repeatedly encounters a beautiful woman named Karen and eventually has sex with her. Although he returns home the next day, he soon learns that Karen is a prostitute and that Charlie is dying.

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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 SmithShot by Declan QuinnScored by Mike FiggisDesigned by Waldemar Kalinowski

Box Office

1997 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$2.6M

Budget$24.0M
Worldwide gross$2.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $979K — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.3M — 50% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 407 theaters

Also known as

  • Pour une nuitfr
  • Complice la notteit

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