budget / box office returns ?

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Mandy_Whitsands — 14 years ago(May 17, 2011 02:41 AM)

hi. Does anyone find numbers for budget and box office returns?
thank you.

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riverwalk — 14 years ago(May 21, 2011 06:00 PM)

i dunno if it was a hit as it's not a classic or anything,like most people in know never heard of the movie

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madmanontheloose — 13 years ago(April 29, 2012 08:44 AM)

I beg to differ, billythepub, by many critics and afficionados it is considered a minor classic thriller, dealing with paranoia and dark pessimism - a typical theme for classic 70s thrillers (Chinatown, The Parallax View, The Conversation etc.).
I dont know about the budget, but I once read on "the-numbers.com" that it made about $ 30 million in the U.S. alone (about $ 100 million today, considering inflation) - so it could be considered a hit.
Anyhow, these numbers sometimes change, so it cannot always be taken for granted.
Hope that helped

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riverwalk — 13 years ago(May 29, 2012 08:21 PM)

well i always assumed a classic was well known,this movie does not have a household name

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madmanontheloose — 13 years ago(June 27, 2012 01:20 PM)

Depends on how you define "classic" (there are terms like "small classic", "minor classic", "modern classic" etc.). As far as I know, many people remember this movie quite well; it even helped install a trend for medical thrillers at the end of the seventies.

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spacemanspiff00 — 13 years ago(September 07, 2012 10:52 PM)

The Wikipedia page for the movie say it made 50 million which would make it one of the 10 highest grossing movies of the year. I tend to think that number might be off considering the lack of b.o. data usually means the movie did not do well.

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painter101 — 9 years ago(December 06, 2016 03:07 PM)

I have the CD soundtrack. It states that the budget was $4.5 million. In the USA it took in over $8 million in 19 days.