My Wife Is an Actress

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My Wife is an Actress
TF1 Films Production
Distributed bydistributor
Release dates
  • 12 September 2001 (2001-09-12) (TIFF)
  • 14 November 2001 (2001-11-14) (France)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesFrench
English
Budget$6.4 million[1]
Box office$5.2 million[2]

My Wife is an Actress (

comedy-drama film starring Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive co-star. Attal also wrote and directed the film. The film stars Terence Stamp among others. This film is also highly biographic, as Yvan and Charlotte are a real-life couple since 1991, and have three children. According to Yvan, the idea and a part of the plot originates from real-life events.[3]

Cast

Reception

The film was released on 14 November 2001 in France on 238 screens and opened at number one with a gross of 7 million Francs ($1 million) for the week.[4] It went on to gross $3.4 million in France.[5] It opened on 12 July 2002 in 7 theatres in the United States and grossed $49,204 in the opening weekend and went on to gross $1,121,233. It grossed $5,169,438 worldwide.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Ma femme est une actrice (2001) - JPBox-Office".
  2. ^ "My Wife is an Actress (2002) - Box Office Mojo". Archived from the original on 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  3. ^ "Interview with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal - Movie Habit". www.moviehabit.com.
  4. ^ "International Box Office". Variety. 26 November 2001. p. 10.
  5. ^ a b "My Wife is an Actress (2002) - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com.

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