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Released
1992 · FILM

Poison Ivy

A manipulative teenage siren sets her sights on a reclusive high‑schooler’s affluent family, using charm and deception to infiltrate their world before the truth shatters everything.

Ivy thought her best friend had the perfect house, the perfect family, the perfect life. So she took them.

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Runtime
92 min
DramaThriller

Synopsis

A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Gina MittelmanShot by Phedon PapamichaelScored by David Michael FrankDesigned by Virginia Lee

Box Office

1992 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$1.8M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$1.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $120K 7% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $163K9% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 20 theaters

Also known as

  • Poison Ivy - Die tödliche Umarmungde
  • Hiedra Venenosaes
  • Fleur de poisonfr
  • La mia peggiore amicait

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