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Released
2000 · FILM

What Planet Are You From?

“To save his planet, an alien must find a woman on Earth to have his baby. There's just one problem.”

Directed by
Mike Nichols, Mike Nichols Nm0001566
Written by
Garry Shandling, Michael Leeson
Runtime
105 min
ComedySci-Fi

Synopsis

A human-looking alien from a highly advanced but emotionless all-male society is sent to Earth with the mission to impregnate a woman and return the child to his home planet. As he carries out his task, he begins to experience unexpected emotions, ultimately falling in love with the woman. Meanwhile, a suspicious FAA agent becomes aware of his unusual behavior and begins to investigate and follow him.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Richard MarksShot by Michael BallhausScored by Carter BurwellDesigned by Bo Welch

Box Office

2000 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$14.1M

Budget$60.0M
Worldwide gross$14.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $6.3M — 45% of worldwide · International: $7.8M (55%)

Opening weekend: $3.0M — 48% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.9M — 62% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,248 theaters

Also known as

  • Good Vibrations - Sex vom anderen Sternde
  • ¿De qué planeta vienes?es
  • De quelle planète viens-tu ?fr
  • Da che pianeta vieni?it

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