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Released
1994 · FILM

The Favor

“Two Women. Three Men. One Secret.”

Directed by
Donald Petrie
Written by
Josann Mcgibbon, Sara Parriott
Runtime
97 min
ComedyRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily to seduce her old flame Tom, so she can get all the juicy details. But when Emily falls for Tom, it's like high school all over again!

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How many hands made this film

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 Harry KeramidasShot by Tim SuhrstedtScored by Thomas NewmanDesigned by David Chapman

Box Office

1994 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$3.1M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$3.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.5M — 47% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.9M — 61% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,029 theaters

Also known as

  • The Favor – Hilfe, meine Frau ist verliebt!de
  • A letto con l'amicoit

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