High Anxiety
Danger, intrigue, romance...and a touch of kinkiness!
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
- Director
- Mel Brooks
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $31M
Who's in it
Cast
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29 billed performers
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What It's About
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A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
High Anxiety returned 7.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $4M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $31M
- Release date
- Dec 25, 1977
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- MPAA rating
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- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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