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Released
2023 · FILM

Beau Is Afraid

An anxiety‑ridden man must race back to his mother’s house after her sudden death, only to confront a nightmarish series of surreal obstacles that turn his deepest fears into deadly realities.

“From his darkest fears comes the greatest adventure.”

Directed by
Ari Aster, Vincent Belisle Ducharme
Written by
Ari Aster
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
179 min
ComedyDramaHorror

Synopsis

After the unexpected death of his mother, a quiet and anxious man faces his deepest fears as he undertakes a journey back to his childhood home.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 265+ 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 Lucian JohnstonShot by Pawel PogorzelskiScored by Bobby KrlicDesigned by Fiona CrombieSound by Paul HsuCostumes by Tristan D LallaStunts by David MckeownVFX by Irene Armit

Box Office

2023 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$12.3M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$12.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $8.2M — 66% of worldwide · International: $4.2M (34%)

Opening weekend: $320K — 4% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $436K — 5% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4 theaters

Also known as

  • (English)Beau Is Afraid
  • Beau Is Afraidde
  • Beau tiene miedoes
  • Beau ha paurait
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • United StatesApr 1, 2023
  • CzechiaApr 14, 2023
  • TaiwanApr 16, 2023
  • AustraliaApr 20, 2023
  • BrazilApr 20, 2023

Companies

ProductionAccess Entertainment, IPR.VC, A24, MTL Grandé Studios, Square Peg
DistributionA24, TME Films, ARP Sélection, Adastra Cinema, Aerofilms
Special effectsApplied Arts FX Studio, Folks, Hybride Technologies, Crafty Apes, The Artery VFX
Other companiesBrauer & Co., DHL Studios, Endcrawl.com, Film Finances, Freeway CAM B.V.

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