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Released
2018 · FILM

American Animals

Four college friends plot to steal a priceless manuscript from their university library, only to find their daring heist spiraling into a high‑stakes battle of trust, law enforcement, and their own ambitions.

“Nobody wants to be ordinary.”

Directed by
Bart Layton, Neal Gray
Written by
Bart Layton, Jon Croker
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
117 min
BiographyCrimeDrama

Synopsis

In 2004, in Lexington, Kentucky, four young men carried out one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 367+ credited

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 Chris GillShot by Ole Bratt BirkelandScored by Anne NikitinDesigned by Scott DouganSound by Andrew StirkCostumes by Jenny EaganStunts by G Peter KingVFX by Marcus Dryden

Box Office

2018 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$2.8M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$2.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $188K

Peak 4 theaters

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