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Released
1985 · FILM

A Chorus Line

Seventeen dancers audition for a spot in a new Broadway musical, forcing the demanding director to confront his past with one of the hopefuls as they all fight for a chance to be seen.

“One singular sensation!”

Directed by
Richard Attenborough
Written by
Arnold Schulman, Michael Bennett
Runtime
118 min
DramaMusicMusical
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A group of dancers gather on the stage of a Broadway theater to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach. After the initial rounds of eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, including Cassie, who previously had a turbulent romantic relationship with Zach. She is so eager for work that she is willing to lower herself to audition for him, and it remains to be seen whether he can set aside his personal feelings about their past in favor of professional judgment.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 John BloomShot by Ronnie TaylorDesigned by Patrizia Von Brandenstein

Box Office

1985 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$14.2M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$14.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $223K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $395K — 3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 19 theaters

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  • Chorus Linefr

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