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Released
1993 · FILM

What's Love Got to Do with It

A determined young singer fights to claim the stage and her voice while battling an increasingly violent marriage, risking everything to break free from her tyrannical husband and become a legend.

“Who Needs A Heart When A Heart Can Be Broken?”

Directed by
Brian Gibson
Written by
Tina Turner, Kurt Loder
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
118 min
BiographyDramaMusic

Synopsis

The story chronicles singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and her journey to gain the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 238+ 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 Stuart H PappShot by Jamie AndersonScored by Stanley ClarkeDesigned by Stephen Altman

Box Office

1993 · 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

$39.1M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$39.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.2M — 3% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.0M — 5% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 58 theaters

Also known as

  • Tina - What's Love Got To Do With Itde
  • Tinafr
  • Tina - What's Love Got to Do with Itit

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