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Released
1999 · FILM

The End of the Affair

A tormented novelist returns to post‑war London to track his former lover’s husband, risking obsession and ruin as he battles jealousy and the haunting shadows of a broken affair.

“The end was just the beginning.”

Directed by
Neil Jordan
Written by
Neil Jordan, Graham Greene
Runtime
102 min
DramaMysteryRomance

Synopsis

In 1946, on a rainy night in London, novelist Maurice Bendrix encounters Henry Miles, the husband of his former mistress, Sarah, with whom he had ended an affair two years earlier. His feelings for Sarah resurface, and driven by jealousy, Bendrix takes steps to have her followed.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Tony LawsonShot by Roger PrattScored by Michael NymanDesigned by Anthony Pratt

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$10.8M

Budget$23.0M
Worldwide gross$10.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $199K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $277K — 3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 7 theaters

Also known as

  • Das Ende einer Affärede
  • End of the Affairen
  • La Fin d'une liaisonfr
  • Fine di una storiait

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