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Released
2004 · FILM

Bad Education

A filmmaker who receives a semi‑autobiographical script about his Catholic boarding‑school days must confront his repressed trauma and untangle a murderous conspiracy before the hidden abuses are exposed forever.

Directed by
Pedro Almodovar
Written by
Pedro Almodovar
Rated
MPA · NC-17
Runtime
105 min
Language
ES
CrimeDrama

Synopsis

When an old friend gives filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script detailing their adolescence, Enrique is compelled to revisit his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. The script moves between past and present, following a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. This unexpected meeting prompts the character to reflect on her childhood sexual abuse and the trauma of concealing her sexual orientation.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 29

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 Jose SalcedoShot by Jose Luis AlcaineScored by Alberto IglesiasDesigned by Antxon Gomez

Box Office

2004 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.1× 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

$40.3M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$40.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $5.2M — 13% of worldwide · International: $35.1M (87%)

Opening weekend: $147K — 3% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $241K — 5% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3 theaters

Also known as

  • La Mala Educación - Schlechte Erziehungde
  • Schlechte Erziehungde
  • Bad Educationen
  • La Mauvaise Éducationfr

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