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Released
1999 · FILM

Three to Tango

A struggling designer teams up with his rival to win a high‑stakes cultural center commission, only to be hired by a clueless tycoon to spy on the tycoon's seductive mistress—forcing him to choose between career ambition and an unexpected romance.

“All's fair in the war of love.”

Directed by
Damon Santostefano
Written by
Rodney Patrick Vaccaro, Aline Brosh Mckenna
Runtime
98 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

Oscar and Peter are given a significant career opportunity when a Chicago tycoon selects them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon, under the mistaken belief that Oscar is gay, tasks him with spying on his mistress, Amy. Oscar agrees to the assignment and eventually falls in love with her.

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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 Stephen SemelShot by Walt LloydScored by Graeme RevellDesigned by David Nichols

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$10.6M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$10.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.4M — 42% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.5M — 52% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,234 theaters

Also known as

  • Ein Date zu Drittde
  • Tango para treses
  • Un de tropfr
  • Appuntamento a treit

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