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Released
1999 · FILM

The Story of Us

A seasoned couple confronts fifteen years of quiet discontent when they finally separate to decide whether love can survive their drifting hearts, risking the stability of their family and themselves in the process.

“Can a marriage survive 15 years of marriage?”

Directed by
Rob Reiner
Written by
Alan Zweibel, Jessie Nelson
Runtime
96 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

After 15 years of marriage, Katie and her husband, Ben, have grown apart. While they maintain the appearance of a happy marriage, largely to avoid worrying their children, they are unhappy and often argue. With their children away at camp, Katie and Ben decide to separate and reevaluate their relationship to determine whether they should stay together or part ways permanently.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Alan Edward BellShot by Michael ChapmanScored by Marc ShaimanDesigned by Lilly Kilvert

Box Office

1999 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× 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

$58.9M

Budget$50.0M
Worldwide gross$58.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $27.1M — 46% of worldwide · International: $31.8M (54%)

Opening weekend: $9.7M — 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $12.4M — 46% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,164 theaters

Also known as

  • An Deiner Seitede
  • Une vie à deuxfr
  • Storia di noi dueit

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