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Released
1984 · FILM

The Woman in Red

A devoted husband becomes obsessed with a seductive stranger in red and schemes to win her over, only to find his pursuit threatens his marriage and spirals into comedic chaos.

“He's head over heels and headed straight for trouble!”

Directed by
Gene Wilder
Written by
Jean Loup Dabadie, Yves Robert
Runtime
87 min
ComedyRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red and becomes totally infatuated, desperate to make her acquaintance. As he tries various schemes to sneak out and meet her, he realizes that adultery is not as easy as it seems.

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How many hands made this film

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 Christopher GreenburyShot by Fred SchulerScored by John MorrisDesigned by David L Snyder

Box Office

1984 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.8× 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

$25.3M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$25.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.2M — 12% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.8M — 23% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,065 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Frau in Rotde
  • La Fille en rougefr
  • La signora in rossoit

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