What Women Want
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| Directed by | Nancy Meyers |
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| Cinematography | Dean Cundey |
| Edited by | Thomas J. Nordberg Stephen A. Rotter Carol Littleton |
| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (United States and Canada) Icon Entertainment International (International) |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70 million |
| Box office | $374.1 million |
What Women Want is a 2000 American romantic fantasy comedy film written by Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa, and Diane Drake, directed by Nancy Meyers, and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.
The film was released on December 15, 2000, by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Canada and by Icon Productions in international markets. It received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box-office success, with a North American domestic gross of $182 million and a worldwide gross of $374.1 million against a budget of $70 million, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2000.
A loose remake, What Men Want, was released in 2019, starring Taraji P. Henson, Tracy Morgan and Aldis Hodge.