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Released
2000 · FILM

All the Pretty Horses

A restless young Texan sets out for Mexico to chase the mythic cowboy life he’s always dreamed of, but crossing the border forces him into a brutal world where survival and honor clash, threatening his chance at a fresh start.

“Some passions can never be tamed.”

Directed by
Billy Bob Thornton
Written by
Cormac Mccarthy, Ted Tally
Runtime
117 min
DramaRomanceWestern

Synopsis

In 1949, a young Texan named John Grady is left without a home after his mother sells the ranch where he has lived his entire life. Drawn south of the border by the romantic allure of cowboy life and the hope of a new beginning, he and his friend set out on an adventure that will challenge their endurance, shape their maturity, and ultimately transform their lives.

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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 Sally MenkeShot by Barry MarkowitzScored by Larry PaxtonDesigned by Clark Hunter

Box Office

2000 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$18.1M

Budget$57.0M
Worldwide gross$18.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $15.5M — 86% of worldwide · International: $2.6M (14%)

Opening weekend: $4.2M — 27% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.2M — 27% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,483 theaters

Also known as

  • All die schönen Pferdede
  • De si jolis chevauxfr
  • Passione ribelleit

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