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Released
1990 · FILM

Sibling Rivalry

“She did it. And boy, is she sorry.”

Directed by
Carl Reiner
Written by
Martha Goldhirsh
Runtime
87 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Marjorie Turner is suffocating in her marriage and day to day life. An extramarital affair with a stranger seems to be the answer until her paramour has a fatal heart attack, and turns out to be less of a stranger than she could have thought...

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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 Bud MolinShot by Reynaldo VillalobosScored by Jack ElliottDesigned by Jeannine Oppewall

Box Office

1990 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× 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

$17.9M

Budget$16.0M
Worldwide gross$17.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.0M — 23% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $5.2M — 29% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,448 theaters

Also known as

  • Eine fast anständige Fraude
  • Hay un muerto en mi camaes
  • L'Amour dans de beaux drapsfr
  • Scappatella con il mortoit

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