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Released
2001 · FILM

Baby Boy

A young, streetwise man in South Central Los Angeles struggles to grow up and take responsibility after fathering two children, caught between his reckless past and the demands of adulthood.

“Just a Baby Boy.”

Directed by
John Singleton, John Singleton Nm0005436
Written by
John Singleton, John Singleton Nm0005436
Runtime
130 min
CrimeDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Starz

Synopsis

Jody is a 20-year-old African-American man who is unprepared and reluctant to take on the responsibilities of adulthood. Though streetwise, he is unemployed and still lives with his mother. He has fathered two children with two different women, Yvette and Peanut, but struggles to find stability or direction in his increasingly complicated life.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Bruce CannonShot by Charles MillsScored by David ArnoldDesigned by Keith Brian Burns

Box Office

2001 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.8× 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

$29.4M

Budget$16.0M
Worldwide gross$29.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $28.7M — 98% of worldwide · International: $647K (2%)

Opening weekend: $3.1M — 11% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.1M — 11% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,473 theaters

Also known as

  • John Singletons Baby Boyde

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