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Released
1999 · FILM

Random Hearts

A grieving Internal Affairs detective teams with a widowed Congresswoman to uncover the tangled secret behind their spouses’ fatal crash, risking career and reputation as they confront betrayal and political fallout.

In a perfect world, they never would have met.

Directed by
Runtime
133 min
DramaMysteryRomance

Synopsis

After both losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs police officer and a congresswoman find each other's keys among their loved ones' belongings and discover that the two had been having an affair.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 William SteinkampShot by Philippe RousselotScored by Dave GrusinDesigned by Barbara Ling

Box Office

1999 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× 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

$74.6M

Budget$64.0M
Worldwide gross$74.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $31.5M 42% of worldwide · International: $43.1M (58%)

Opening weekend: $13.0M 41% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $16.9M54% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,697 theaters

Also known as

  • Begegnung des Schicksalsde
  • L'Ombre d'un soupçonfr
  • Destini incrociatiit

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