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1996 · FILM

Beautiful Girls

A disillusioned jazz pianist returns to his small‑town hometown for a high‑school reunion and must confront the stagnant lives of his old friends while deciding whether to chase new love or remain stuck in familiar comforts.

Good times never seemed so good.

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Written by
Runtime
112 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

Set during a snowy winter in the fictional small town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, the story follows a group of lifelong friends as they spend time together, drink, and navigate their relationships with the women who influence their decisions, dreams, and desires.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Jeffrey WolfShot by Adam John KimmelScored by David A StewartDesigned by Dan Davis

Box Office

1996 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.7× 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

$27.0M

Budget$16.0M
Worldwide gross$27.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $10.6M 39% of worldwide · International: $16.4M (61%)

Opening weekend: $2.8M 26% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $3.7M35% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 752 theaters

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