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Released
1995 · FILM

A Little Princess

A young girl's unwavering spirit and imagination help her endure the harsh realities of a New York boarding school after her father is lost in World War I.

“No miracle is ever too small.”

Directed by
Alfonso Cuaron
Written by
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Richard Lagravenese
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
97 min
DramaFamilyFantasy
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

When her father enlists to fight for the British in World War I, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Steven WeisbergShot by Emmanuel LubezkiScored by Patrick DoyleDesigned by Bo Welch

Box Office

1995 · 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

$10.0M

Budget$17.0M
Worldwide gross$10.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $29K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 3 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Traumprinzessinde
  • Little Princessde
  • Little Princess - Die Traumprinzessinde
  • La princesitaes
  • La Petite Princessefr
  • La piccola principessait

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