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Released
1999 · FILM

The Thomas Crown Affair

Billionaire art thief Thomas Crown plans an audacious museum heist, only to find himself locked in a high‑stakes game of wits with a relentless insurance investigator—who may become his greatest risk and unexpected love.

How do you get the man who has everything?

Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
113 min
CrimeRomanceThriller

Synopsis

Thomas Crown, a bored billionaire executive, decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover as he's fallen in love.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 379+ credited

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 John WrightShot by Tom Priestley JrScored by Bill ContiDesigned by Bruno RubeoSound by Michael MinklerCostumes by Kate HarringtonStunts by Frank Ferrara

Box Office

1999 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 2.6× 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

$124.3M

Budget$48.0M
Worldwide gross$124.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $69.3M 56% of worldwide · International: $55.0M (44%)

Also known as

  • Die Thomas Crown Affairede
  • Die Thomas Crown Affärede
  • Thomas Crownfr
  • Gioco a dueit
  • (English)The Thomas Crown Affair
  • (Bulgarian)Аферата Томас Краун
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United StatesJul 27, 1999
  • CanadaAug 6, 1999
  • AustraliaAug 19, 1999
  • HungaryAug 19, 1999

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