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Released
1999 · FILM

Anywhere but Here

A single mother uproots her disciplined teen daughter from the Midwest to chase a Hollywood dream in Beverly Hills, forcing the girl to fight for her Ivy League future while navigating her mom’s reckless ambitions.

“A story of a mother who knows best... and a daughter who knows better.”

Directed by
Wayne Wang
Written by
Mona Simpson, Alvin Sargent
Runtime
114 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

Adele August is a single mother who struggles with finances and decision‑making. Her daughter Ann is a disciplined high school student aiming for Ivy League admission. Adele decides to relocate both of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, California, in order to pursue a career in Hollywood, which leads Ann to become frustrated with her mother.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Nicholas A SmithShot by Roger DeakinsScored by Danny ElfmanDesigned by Donald Graham Burt

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$18.7M

Budget$23.0M
Worldwide gross$18.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.6M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $6.9M — 37% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,672 theaters

Also known as

  • Überall, nur nicht hierde
  • Ma mère, moi et ma mèrefr
  • La mia adorabile nemicait

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