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Released
2004 · FILM

Raising Helen

A high‑powered New York model must decide whether to keep climbing the fashion ladder or sacrifice her dream life to become the guardian of her late sister’s children, risking everything she loves in the process.

“Her uptown life gets turned inside out!”

Directed by
Garry Marshall
Written by
Patrick J Clifton, Beth Rigazio
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
119 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Helen Harris leads a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But her free-spirited existence is suddenly upended when she must choose between the life she has always loved and the new loves that have entered her life.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 28

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 GreenShot by Charles MinskyScored by John DebneyDesigned by Steven J Jordan

Box Office

2004 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 1.0× 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

$49.7M

Budget$50.0M
Worldwide gross$49.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $37.5M — 75% of worldwide · International: $12.2M (25%)

Opening weekend: $11.0M — 29% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $17.5M — 47% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,717 theaters

Also known as

  • Liebe auf Umwegende
  • Fashion mamanfr
  • Quando meno te lo aspettiit

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