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Released
2015 · FILM

The Perfect Guy

“Trust one, fear the other.”

Directed by
David M Rosenthal
Written by
Alan B Mcelroy, Tyger Williams
Runtime
100 min
DramaRomanceThriller
Streaming on
  • Starz

Synopsis

Leah Vaughn, a successful lobbyist with a stable personal life, appears to have everything under control. Her relationship with her boyfriend, Dave, begins to unravel when he expresses disapproval of her future plans for marriage and children. The breakup leaves her emotionally devastated. She finds comfort in a new relationship with Carter Duncan, a charismatic and attractive man. However, their romance takes a dark turn as Carter's unstable behavior becomes apparent, leading Leah to end the relationship. Carter, however, refuses to accept the breakup, escalating the situation into a dangerous confrontation.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

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 Joan SobelShot by Peter SimoniteScored by David FlemingDesigned by William Arnold

Box Office

2015 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.0× 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

$60.3M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$60.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $57.0M — 95% of worldwide · International: $3.2M (5%)

Opening weekend: $25.9M — 45% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $31.7M — 56% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,221 theaters

Also known as

  • L'Homme parfaitfr
  • Un homme parfaitfr

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