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Philadelphia

1993 PG-13 2h 5m Drama TriStar Pictures

No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system.

Philadelphia Box Office

Domestic Total
$77.4M
Final
Worldwide Total
$207M
$129M international
Budget$26.0M
1994 Rank#14
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 24-26 20 $143K $143K 4 $35.9K 1
Dec 31-Jan 2 20 $154K +7.3% $556K 4 $38.5K 2
Jan 7-9 19 $141K -8.4% $839K 4 $35.3K 3
Jan 14-17 MLK Day 1 $13.82M $14.77M 1,245 $11.1K 4
Jan 21-23 1 $8.83M $26.53M 1,295 $6.8K 5
Jan 28-30 2 $7.32M -17.1% $36.60M 1,562 $4.7K 6
Feb 4-6 3 $5.82M -20.5% $44.82M 1,594 $3.7K 7
Feb 11-13 7 $4.22M -27.4% $50.47M 1,604 $2.6K 8
Feb 18-21 Presidents' Day 10 $4.02M $55.88M 1,449 $2.8K 9
Feb 25-27 12 $2.23M $58.79M 1,336 $1.7K 10
Mar 4-6 16 $1.52M -31.8% $61.01M 968 $1.6K 11
Mar 11-13 18 $1.10M -27.8% $62.64M 708 $1.5K 12
Mar 18-20 15 $1.14M +4.1% $64.20M 673 $1.7K 13
Mar 25-27 8 $1.94M +70.1% $66.82M 888 $2.2K 14
Apr 1-3 15 $1.33M -31.5% $68.15M 795 $1.7K 15
Apr 8-10 13 $1.22M -8.1% $70.17M 809 $1.5K 16
Apr 15-17 15 $791K -35.2% $71.55M 637 $1.2K 17
Apr 22-24 17 $621K -21.5% $72.54M 590 $1.1K 18

Profitability

Return on Budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

Cast & Crew

Directed byJonathan Demme
ScreenplayRon Nyswaner
Produced byEdward Saxon, Jonathan Demme
CinematographyTak Fujimoto
Music byHoward Shore
StarringTom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, Joanne Woodward
StudioTriStar Pictures

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