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Released
1988 · FILM

The Good Mother

A divorced woman faces a devastating custody battle when her teenage daughter accuses her of moral neglect after discovering her mother's new, free-spirited relationship.

Can a court determine how we should live, how we should love, how we should raise our children? Now Anna must prove that she is the Good Mother.

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Runtime
104 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

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 Peter E BergerShot by David WatkinScored by Elmer BernsteinDesigned by Stan Jolley

Box Office

1988 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$4.8M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$4.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.8M 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.4M50% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 667 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Preis der Gefühlede
  • El precio de la pasiónes
  • Le Prix de la passionfr
  • Diritto d'amareit

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