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Released
2003 · FILM

Something's Gotta Give

A wealthy music executive recovering from a heart attack finds unexpected romance with his girlfriend's sharp-tongued mother while navigating shifting relationships and emotional chaos in the Hamptons.

“After a lifetime of going from girl to girl, the ultimate bachelor is about to encounter something new.”

Directed by
Nancy Meyers
Written by
Nancy Meyers
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
128 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

When the perpetually single, aging music industry executive Harry Sanborn and his latest girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's house for Thanksgiving, they find themselves entangled in a web of family secrets and dysfunction.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 238+ credited

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 Joe HutshingShot by Michael BallhausScored by Hans ZimmerDesigned by Jon Hutman

Box Office

2003 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.4× 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

$270.0M

Budget$80.0M
Worldwide gross$270.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $124.7M — 46% of worldwide · International: $145.3M (54%)

Opening weekend: $16.1M — 13% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $22.0M — 18% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,677 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Was das Herz begehrtde
  • Tout peut arriverfr
  • Tutto può succedereit
  • Tutto può succedere - Something's gotta giveit

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