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Released
2011 · FILM

Albert Nobbs

In oppressive 19th‑century Dublin, a determined woman masquerading as a male hotel butler fights to shed her disguise and claim an authentic life before the secrets that sustain her survival destroy everything she loves.

“A man with a secret. A woman with a dream.”

Directed by
Rodrigo Garcia
Written by
Gabriella Prekop, John Banville
Runtime
113 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

Albert Nobbs lives in late 19th-century Ireland, where women are discouraged from independence. To survive, she disguises herself as a man and works as a butler at Dublin's most prestigious hotel. There, she meets a charming painter and begins to seek a way out of the deception she has maintained.

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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 Steven WeisbergShot by Michael McdonoughScored by Brian ByrneDesigned by Patrizia Von Brandenstein

Box Office

2011 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$5.6M

Budget$8.0M
Worldwide gross$5.6M
break-even (2.5×)

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