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What Lies Beneath

2000 PG-13 2h 10m Drama, Horror, Mystery DreamWorks Distribution

He was the perfect husband until his one mistake followed them home.

Box office summary
Domestic Total
$155M
Final
Opening Weekend
$29.7M
3-day opening
Domestic Legs
5.23x
Opening → Total
Budget
$100M
Production budget
Worldwide Total
$291M
$136M international
2000 Rank
#10
Domestic
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Jul 21-23 1 $29.7M $29.7M 2,813 $11K 1
Jul 28-30 2 $22.9M -23.0% $69.4M 2,825 $8K 2
Aug 4-6 5 $13.8M -39.6% $95.1M 2,867 $5K 3
Aug 11-13 6 $9.7M -29.5% $112.0M 2,925 $3K 4
Aug 18-20 5 $6.8M -30.6% $123.4M 2,760 $2K 5
Aug 25-27 6 $4.6M -31.7% $130.9M 2,568 $2K 6
Sep 1-3 4 $4.7M +2.2% $137.5M 2,407 $2K 7
Sep 8-10 6 $2.8M -41.3% $142.4M 2,166 $1K 8
Sep 15-17 7 $2.4M -13.1% $145.6M 2,007 $1K 9
Sep 22-24 8 $2.2M -8.9% $148.4M 1,819 $1K 10
Sep 29-Oct 1 9 $1.6M -25.0% $150.6M 1,674 $982 11
Oct 6-8 11 $1.1M -31.7% $152.1M 1,375 $816 12
Oct 13-15 14 $649K -42.2% $153.1M 1,027 $631 13
Oct 20-22 19 $348K -46.3% $153.6M 697 $499 14
Oct 27-29 28 $182K -47.9% $153.9M 369 $491 15
Nov 3-5 34 $105K -42.1% $154.1M 200 $525 16
Nov 10-12 45 $63K -39.7% $154.2M 124 $510 17
Nov 17-19 19 $245K +287.7% $154.4M 400 $613 18
Nov 24-26 21 $238K -3.1% $154.8M 400 $594 19
Dec 1-3 23 $153K -35.7% $155.0M 350 $437 20
Dec 8-10 30 $91K -40.5% $155.2M 235 $387 21
Dec 15-17 33 $61K -33.5% $155.2M 193 $313 22

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byRobert Zemeckis
ScreenplayClark Gregg
Produced bySteve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke
CinematographyDon Burgess
MusicAlan Silvestri
StarringMichelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Diana Scarwid, James Remar, Miranda Otto, Ray Baker
StudioDreamWorks Distribution