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Defending Your Life

 1991
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Directed by

Albert Brooks

Starring

Albert Brooks · Michael Durrell · Meryl Streep · James Eckhouse · Gary Beach · Julie Cobb

Full cast & crew

Box Office Quickview

US box office

  • Box Office debut: 12th Apr '91
  • Debut position: 5
  • Highest position: 5
  • Debut gross: $3.1 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 3

Chart position history

UK box office

US box office

12 Apr, 1991
5
19 Apr, 1991
6
3 May, 1991
13

Global box office

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £0
US total gross
United States Flag  $14.3 Million
Global total gross
Global Flag  $0

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News from around the web
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At Albert Brooks’ Gate  Splice Today Fri, 5th December 2025

‘Wonderfully sentimental’: why Defending Your Life is my feelgood movie  The Guardian Tue, 28th January 2025

OPINION: The need to get smarter  TownAndCountryToday.com Tue, 1st September 2026

Defending Your Life: Real Afterlife  The Criterion Collection Wed, 31st March 2021

'Modern Romance,' Albert Brooks’ influential cringe comedy, turns 45  Substack Thu, 12th March 2026