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Released
1991 · FILM

Soapdish

A fading soap opera star must outwit her scheming co-star and producer, who plot to destroy her by rekindling an old romance and bringing in her beautiful young niece.

“All that glitter... All that glamour... All that dirt.”

Directed by
Michael Hoffman
Written by
Robert Harling, Andrew Bergman
Runtime
97 min
ComedyRomance
Streaming on
  • MGM+

Synopsis

Celeste Talbert stars in the long-running soap opera *The Sun Also Sets*. As the show's ratings decline, her ruthlessly ambitious co-star, Montana Moorehead, and the show's arrogant producer, David Seton Barnes, conspire to drive her out by reuniting her with her ex-lover, Jeffrey Anderson, and hiring her beautiful young niece, Lori Craven.

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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 Garth CravenShot by Ueli SteigerScored by Alan SilvestriDesigned by Eugenio Zanetti

Box Office

1991 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× 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

$36.5M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$36.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.7M — 18% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $9.7M — 27% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,275 theaters

Also known as

  • Lieblingsfeinde - Eine Seifenoperde
  • Escándalo en el platóes
  • La télé lave plus proprefr
  • Bolle di saponeit

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