Foul Play
It's a highly dangerous comedy!!
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
- Director
- Colin Higgins
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $45M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
24 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Foul Play actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
Where to watch
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Foul Play returned 9.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $5M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $45M
- Release date
- Jul 14, 1978
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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