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Released
2004 · FILM

The Door in the Floor

A grieving writer hires a young assistant who eerily resembles his deceased son, unraveling his marriage and forcing him to confront the past as his wife becomes entangled with the new arrival.

“The most dangerous secrets are the ones we're afraid to tell ourselves.”

Directed by
Tod Williams
Written by
John Irving, Tod Williams
Runtime
111 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

The lives of Ted and Marion Cole are disrupted when their two teenage sons die in a car accident. Marion becomes distant from Ted and their daughter, Ruth. Ted, a prominent writer, hires a student named Eddie as his assistant, who bears a striking resemblance to one of the deceased sons. The couple eventually separates, with Marion beginning an affair with Eddie, while Ted engages in a brief relationship with his neighbor, Evelyn.

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Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Affonso GoncalvesShot by Terry StaceyScored by Marcelo ZarvosDesigned by Therese Deprez

Box Office

2004 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$6.7M

Budget$7.5M
Worldwide gross$6.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $127K

Peak 47 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Tür der Versuchungde
  • The Door in the Floor - Die Tür der Versuchungde
  • The Door in the Floor - Tür der Versuchungde
  • Lignes de viefr

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