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Released
2010 · FILM

The Perfect Host

A fastidious dinner party host desperate to maintain his flawless reputation must outwit a charismatic bank robber who crashes his soirée, turning an elegant evening into a deadly game of deception.

“Dinner parties are a dying art.”

Directed by
Nicholas Tomnay
Written by
Nicholas Tomnay, Krishna Jones
Runtime
93 min
ComedyCrimeThriller
Streaming on
  • Tubi

Synopsis

Warwick Wilson is a meticulous host who takes great care in preparing for dinner parties, ensuring the table is perfectly set and the duck is served at exactly 8:30 p.m. John Taylor is a professional criminal who has recently robbed a bank and is in need of a place to lay low. He arrives at Warwick's doorstep, pretending to be a friend of a friend, a newcomer to Los Angeles who has been mugged and lost his luggage.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Nicholas TomnayShot by John BrawleyScored by John SwihartDesigned by Ricardo Jattan

Box Office

2010 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$454K

Budget$500K
Worldwide gross$454K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Dinner for One - Eine mörderische Partyde
  • El perfecto anfitriónes

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