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Released
2003 · FILM

Beyond Borders

American expatriate Sarah Jordan risks her privileged life to join a renegade doctor’s humanitarian mission in war‑torn Africa, where she must navigate deadly crises and fierce opposition while confronting the cost of love and sacrifice.

Where hope survives.

Directed by
Runtime
127 min
AdventureDramaRomance

Synopsis

Sarah Jordan is an American living in London in 1984 and is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She meets Nick Callahan, a renegade doctor, who passionately pleads with her to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa. Moved by his cause, Sarah begins a journey of discovery that takes her into dangerous and emotionally challenging situations across the far corners of the world, ultimately leading to heartbreak and romance.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Nicholas BeaumanShot by Phil MeheuxScored by James HornerDesigned by Wolf Kroeger

Box Office

2003 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$11.7M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$11.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $4.4M 38% of worldwide · International: $7.3M (62%)

Opening weekend: $2.1M 47% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.8M63% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,798 theaters

Also known as

  • Jenseits aller Grenzende
  • Sans frontièrefr
  • Amore senza confiniit
  • Beyond Borders - Amore senza confiniit

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