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The War of the Roses

1989 • R • 1h 56m • Comedy, Drama • 20th Century Fox

Once in a lifetime comes a motion picture that makes you feel like falling in love all over again. This is not that movie.

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The War of the Roses Box Office

Opening Weekend
$9.7M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$83.7M
Final
Worldwide Total
$157.0M
$73.3M international
Domestic Legs8.6x
1989 Rank#14
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Dec 8-10 1 $9.69M — $9.69M 1,259 $7.7K 1
Dec 15-17 2 $6.98M -28.0% $19.18M 1,395 $5.0K 2
Dec 22-25 3 $5.52M -20.9% $27.46M 1,455 $3.8K 3
Dec 29-Jan 1 1 $10.49M +90.1% $43.32M 1,526 $6.9K 4
Jan 5-7 2 $7.01M -33.2% $52.92M 1,525 $4.6K 5
Jan 12-14 2 $5.69M -18.7% $60.46M 1,559 $3.7K 6
Jan 19-21 3 $4.24M -25.6% $66.53M 1,532 $2.8K 7
Jan 26-28 4 $3.23M -23.6% $70.89M 1,523 $2.1K 8
Feb 2-4 7 $2.60M -19.6% $74.49M 1,432 $1.8K 9
Feb 9-11 8 $1.73M -33.4% $76.92M 1,054 $1.6K 10
Feb 23-25 12 $942K — $80.02M 779 $1.2K 12
Mar 23-25 26 $311K — $83.22M 384 $810 16

Cast & Crew

Directed byDanny DeVito
ScreenplayMichael J. Leeson
Produced byJames L. Brooks, Arnon Milchan
CinematographyStephen H. Burum
Music byDavid Newman
StarringMichael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sean Astin, Heather Fairfield, G.D. Spradlin
Studio20th Century Fox

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