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Released
2016 · FILM

20th Century Women

A widowed mother enlists two unconventional women to guide her teenage son through the turbulent freedoms and expectations of 1979 Southern California, racing against a generation’s rapid cultural shift to keep his future intact.

“Some things just can't be fixed. Just be there”

Directed by
Mike Mills, Mike Mills Nm0590122
Written by
Mike Mills, Mike Mills Nm0590122
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
118 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Netflix

Synopsis

In 1979, in Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s raising her adolescent son, Jamie, during a time of significant cultural change and rebellion. To assist with Jamie's upbringing, Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women: Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist who lives as a boarder in the Fields' home, and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbor.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Leslie JonesShot by Sean PorterScored by Roger NeillDesigned by Chris Jones

Box Office

2016 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$5.7M

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$5.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $67K

Peak 4 theaters

Also known as

  • Jahrhundertfrauende

Production & Distribution

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A24

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