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Released
1989 · FILM

Skin Deep

“The comedy that glows in the dark.”

Directed by
Blake Edwards
Written by
Blake Edwards
Runtime
97 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Zach Hutton, a novelist with a heavy drinking habit, experiences personal turmoil after both his wife and his mistress depart from him. Isolated and suffering from severe writer's block, he engages in casual relationships and one‑night encounters while his alcohol consumption intensifies. With assistance from a bartender and his therapist, Zach confronts his issues related to women and alcohol.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

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 Robert PergamentShot by Isidore MankofskyDesigned by Rodger Maus

Box Office

1989 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.3× 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

$45.0M

Budget$8.5M
Worldwide gross$45.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $19.7M — 44% of worldwide · International: $25.3M (56%)

Opening weekend: $2.5M — 13% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.3M — 17% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 489 theaters

Also known as

  • Skin Deep - Männer haben's auch nicht leichtde
  • L'amour est une grande aventurefr

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