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Released
2012 · FILM

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Six‑year‑old Hushpuppy must brave a flood‑ravaged delta and unleash ancient beasts to find her missing mother before the collapsing wilderness swallows her home forever.

“I gotta take care of mine.”

Directed by
Benh Zeitlin
Written by
Benh Zeitlin, Lucy Alibar
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
93 min
AdventureDramaFantasy
Streaming on
  • HBO Max

Synopsis

Hushpuppy is a six-year-old girl living with her father, Wink, in "the Bathtub," a fictional southern Delta community on the edge of the world. Wink raises her with a strict but loving approach, preparing her for a future in which he may no longer be able to protect her. When Wink falls ill with an unexplained condition, the natural world begins to destabilize—temperatures rise, ice caps melt, and a group of prehistoric creatures known as aurochs are released. As the environment deteriorates, Hushpuppy embarks on a journey to find her missing mother.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

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 Affonso GoncalvesShot by Ben RichardsonScored by Dan RomerDesigned by Alex Digerlando

Box Office

2012 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 12× 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

$21.1M

Budget$1.8M
Worldwide gross$21.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $12.8M — 61% of worldwide · International: $8.3M (39%)

Opening weekend: $51K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $51K — 0% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4 theaters

Also known as

  • Les Bêtes du sud sauvagefr
  • Re della terra selvaggiait

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