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Released
2013 · FILM

Before Midnight

A successful novelist and his NGO‑turned‑government employee wife must confront their drifting teenage son and the pressures of new careers while navigating parenthood on a Greek vacation, risking the fragile bonds that hold their family together.

“Everything's better with maturity.”

Directed by
Richard Linklater, Anna Nikolaou
Written by
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
109 min
DramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

It has been nine years since Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who first met on a train in Vienna, last appeared. Now living in Paris with their twin daughters, they spend a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author who is a colleague of Jesse's. As the vacation comes to an end and Jesse prepares to send his teenage son back to the United States, he begins to question his life choices, and his relationship with Celine is put at risk.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 202+ 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 Sandra AdairShot by Christos VoudourisScored by Graham ReynoldsSound by Glenn EanesCostumes by Vassilia Rozana

Box Office

2013 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.7× 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

$11.2M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$11.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $370K

Peak 5 theaters

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  • Untitled Before Sunset-Sequelde

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