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Maid in Manhattan

2002 film by Wayne Wang

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Maid in Manhattan is a 2002 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Wayne Wang and based on a story by John Hughes, who is credited using a pseudonym. It stars Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, and Natasha Richardson. In the film, a hotel maid and a high-profile politician fall in love. The film was released on December 13, 2002, by Sony Pictures Releasing and was a box office success, grossing $154.9 million against its $55 million budget, while receiving mixed reviews.

Editorial summary

“Maid in Manhattan” enters the record as 2002 film by Wayne Wang. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Maid, Manhattan and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Maid, Manhattan and film.
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Why this record matters

“Maid in Manhattan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Maid, Manhattan and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 4, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2002.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Maid in Manhattan primary sources, Maid in Manhattan archive and Maid research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maid in Manhattan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.