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Released
1998 · FILM

The Object of My Affection

A pregnant New York social worker strives to build a supportive family for her unborn child, but her growing affection for her gay best friend sparks a clash with her controlling boyfriend and forces everyone to redefine love and commitment.

“A love story that could only happen between best friends.”

Directed by
Nicholas Hytner
Written by
Stephen Mccauley, Wendy Wasserstein
Runtime
111 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend and decides she would rather raise her child with him, which causes concern for her overbearing boyfriend.

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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 Tariq AnwarShot by Oliver StapletonScored by George FentonDesigned by Jane Musky

Box Office

1998 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.1× 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

$46.9M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$46.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $29.2M — 62% of worldwide · International: $17.7M (38%)

Opening weekend: $9.7M — 33% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $11.9M — 41% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,890 theaters

Also known as

  • Liebe in jeder Beziehungde
  • L'Objet de mon affectionfr
  • L'oggetto del mio desiderioit

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