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#8,269 All-time worldwide
#136 1996 releases

Movie profile

The Rich Man's Wife

1996 · 94 min · Caravan Pictures

Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.5M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$3.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$956,292

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Rich Man's Wife ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #8,269 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1996 releases #136 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1996. Studio / company #11 Caravan Pictures of 11 titles Position inside the mapped Caravan Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,853 Thriller of 2,567 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#8,266 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 2019 · $8.5M #8,267 The Parisian Bitch 2015 · $8.5M #8,268 Without a Clue 1988 · $8.5M #8,270 Ski Patrol 1990 · $8.5M #8,271 Before Night Falls 2000 · $8.5M #8,272 Help, I Shrunk My Teacher 2015 · $8.5M

Quick answer

How did The Rich Man's Wife (1996) perform at the box office?

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The Rich Man's Wife (1996) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $8.5M. In this database it currently ranks #8,269 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #136 among 1996 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,538,318
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

A rich man's wife finds she has a bad prenuptial agreement with an even worse husband. Over drinks with a stranger, she fantasizes about doing her husband in to void the prenup — but much to her surprise, the stranger decides to turn her imagination into reality.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 13, 1996
Production
Caravan Pictures, Hollywood Pictures
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1996, The Rich Man's Wife is positioned in this dataset as a Thriller title from Caravan Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.5M. For comparison, it currently sits #8,269 all-time in the current chart set and #136 among 1996 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.