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Released
1996 · FILM

The Rich Man's Wife

Someone Is Playing A Very Deadly Game...

Directed by
Runtime
94 min
DramaThriller

Synopsis

A wealthy woman discovers that her marriage is governed by an unfavorable prenuptial agreement and is further troubled by her husband's poor character. While having drinks with a stranger, she expresses fantasies about eliminating her husband to void the prenup. To her shock, the stranger takes these thoughts seriously and begins to act on them.

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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 Wendy Greene BricmontShot by Haskell WexlerScored by John FrizzellDesigned by Jeannine Oppewall

Box Office

1996 · Box office

Grossed $8.5M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$8.5M

Worldwide gross$8.5M

Opening weekend: $3.1M 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.0M47% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,006 theaters

Also known as

  • Tödliche Verschwörungde
  • Sombres soupçonsfr
  • La moglie di un uomo riccoit

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