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High Fidelity

2000 • R • 1h 53m • Comedy, Drama, Music • Touchstone Pictures

A comedy about fear of commitment, hating your job, falling in love and other pop favorites.

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3.60

7.4

Box office summary

Opening Weekend

$6.4M

3-day opening

Domestic Total

$27.3M

Final

Worldwide Total

$47.9M

$20.6M international

Domestic Legs4.2x

Budget$20M

2000 Rank#90

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Cast & Crew

Full Frears filmography

Stephen Frears Director

John Cusack Starring

Jack Black Starring

Joan Cusack Starring

ScreenplayD. V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack, Scott Rosenberg Produced byTim Bevan, Rudd Simmons CinematographySeamus McGarvey Music byHoward Shore StudioTouchstone Pictures

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Mar 31-Apr 2 5 $6.4M — 1,183 $5,435 $6.4M

2 Apr 7-9 8 $4.2M −34.0% 1,229 $3,451 $12.8M

3 Apr 14-16 11 $2.7M −36.7% 1,229 $2,185 $16.8M

4 Apr 21-23 13 $2.3M −16.2% 1,231 $1,829 $20.1M

5 Apr 28-30 15 $1.3M −43.7% 806 $1,572 $22.1M

6 May 5-7 15 $749.7K −40.8% 552 $1,358 $23.3M

7 May 12-14 20 $570.7K −23.9% 366 $1,559 $24.2M

8 May 19-21 24 $357.1K −37.4% 209 $1,709 $24.8M

9 May 26-28 26 $320.2K −10.3% 139 $2,303 $25.2M

10 Jun 2-4 24 $172.0K −46.3% 124 $1,387 $25.5M

11 Jun 9-11 23 $191.9K +11.6% 116 $1,654 $25.7M

12 Jun 16-18 30 $138.6K −27.8% 100 $1,386 $26.0M

13 Jun 23-25 33 $114.3K −17.5% 81 $1,411 $26.1M

14 Jun 30-Jul 2 43 $71.5K −37.5% 65 $1,099 $26.3M

15 Jul 7-9 32 $137.0K +91.7% 224 $612 $26.5M

16 Jul 14-16 34 $109.5K −20.1% 166 $659 $26.7M

17 Jul 21-23 42 $77.8K −28.9% 118 $659 $26.8M

18 Jul 28-30 42 $74.9K −3.7% 86 $871 $26.9M

19 Aug 4-6 51 $53.9K −28.1% 72 $748 $27.0M

20 Aug 11-13 64 $40.4K −25.0% 43 $939 $27.1M

21 Aug 18-20 65 $30.0K −25.7% 31 $967 $27.2M

22 Aug 25-27 75 $19.9K −33.5% 23 $867 $27.2M

23 Sep 1-3 79 $28.5K +43.0% 24 $1,187 $27.3M

24 Sep 8-10 76 $17.7K −37.8% 23 $771 $27.3M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Mar 31 #5 $2.5M — $2.5M 1,357 $1,877 1

Sat Apr 1 #5 $3.0M +19% $5.6M 1,357 $2,240 2

Sun Apr 2 #5 $1.7M −45% $6.4M 1,183 $1,426 3

Mon Apr 3 #5 $495.5K −71% $6.9M 1,183 $419 4

Tue Apr 4 #5 $586.9K +18% $7.5M 1,183 $496 5

Wed Apr 5 #5 $517.0K −12% $8.0M 1,183 $437 6

Thu Apr 6 #5 $520.3K +1% $8.5M 1,183 $440 7

Fri Apr 7 #7 $1.4M +171% −45% $10.0M 1,183 $1,192 8

Sat Apr 8 #8 $1.9M +32% −39% $11.8M 1,183 $1,569 9

Sun Apr 9 #8 $1.1M −42% −36% $12.8M 1,229 $873 10

Mon Apr 10 #6 $310.1K −71% −37% $13.1M 1,229 $252 11

Tue Apr 11 #7 $365.3K +18% −38% $13.5M 1,229 $297 12

Wed Apr 12 #7 $316.9K −13% −39% $13.8M 1,229 $258 13

Thu Apr 13 #7 $317.7K — −39% $14.1M 1,229 $259 14

Fri Apr 14 #10 $787.8K +148% −44% $14.9M 1,229 $641 15

Sat Apr 15 #10 $1.2M +58% −33% $16.1M 1,229 $1,013 16

Sun Apr 16 #11 $729.0K −41% −32% $16.8M 1,229 $593 17

Mon Apr 17 #11 $260.7K −64% −16% $17.0M 1,229 $212 18

Tue Apr 18 #12 $271.3K +4% −26% $17.3M 1,229 $221 19

Wed Apr 19 #12 $244.8K −10% −23% $17.6M 1,229 $199 20

Sun Apr 23 #13 $555.0K — −24% $20.1M 1,229 $452 24

Mon Apr 24 #13 $181.3K −67% −30% $20.3M 1,229 $148 25

Tue Apr 25 #17 $88.5K −51% −67% $20.4M 1,229 $72 26

Wed Apr 26 #13 $167.6K +89% −32% $20.6M 1,229 $136 27

Thu Apr 27 #13 $169.2K +1% $20.8M 1,229 $138 28

Sun Apr 30 #14 $291.0K — −48% $22.1M 806 $361 31

Mon May 1 #14 $103.2K −65% −43% $22.2M 806 $128 32

Tue May 2 #14 $118.8K +15% +34% $22.3M 806 $147 33

Wed May 3 #14 $99.9K −16% −40% $22.4M 806 $124 34

Thu May 4 #13 $104.0K +4% −39% $22.5M 806 $129 35

Sun May 7 #15 $202.0K — −31% $23.3M 552 $366 38

Mon May 8 #15 $71.1K −65% −31% $23.4M 552 $129 39

Tue May 9 #14 $82.6K +16% −31% $23.4M 552 $150 40

Wed May 10 #14 $75.3K −9% −25% $23.5M 552 $136 41

Thu May 11 #15 $74.5K −1% −28% $23.6M 552 $135 42

Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record

Cumulative total$23.6M

Mar 31Apr 9Apr 17May 1May 11

Weekend grossWk 10 · $172.0K

$6.4M

$4.2M

$2.7M

$2.3M

$1.3M

$749.7K

$570.7K

$357.1K

$320.2K

$172.0K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 1,357 → 552 −59.3%

1,357 open552 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −46.3%

−34.0%

W1→2

−36.7%

W2→3

−16.2%

W3→4

−43.7%

W4→5

−40.8%

W5→6

−23.9%

W6→7

−37.4%

W7→8

−10.3%

W8→9

−46.3%

W9→10

Steepest −46.3%Best hold −10.3%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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