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Released
1996 · FILM

The Mirror Has Two Faces

A literature professor yearning for true romance teams up with a mathematician who’s sworn off sex, hoping to forge a deep connection that might ignite the passion she craves—while battling their opposing beliefs about love and intimacy.

“A story about just how wrong two people can be before they can be right.”

Directed by
Barbra Streisand
Written by
Richard Lagravenese, Andre Cayatte
Runtime
126 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Netflix

Synopsis

Rose Morgan, who continues to live with her mother, is a professor specializing in Romantic Literature and is deeply yearning for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a professor of mathematics, has been disillusioned by passionate relationships and is seeking a union devoid of sex, grounded instead in friendship and mutual respect.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Jeff WernerShot by Andrzej BartkowiakScored by Marvin HamlischDesigned by Tom H John

Box Office

1996 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 1.0× 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

$41.1M

Budget$42.0M
Worldwide gross$41.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $12.2M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $16.1M — 39% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,489 theaters

Also known as

  • Liebe hat zwei Gesichterde
  • Leçons de séductionfr
  • L'amore ha due facceit

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