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Released
2012 · FILM

Big Miracle

A determined small‑town reporter teams with an idealistic Greenpeace activist to rally warring superpowers into a daring operation that will free three trapped gray whales before the Arctic ice seals their fate.

“A family of whales trapped beneath the ice. One unforgettable rescue.”

Directed by
Ken Kwapis
Written by
Jack Amiel, Michael Begler
Runtime
107 min
BiographyDramaRomance

Synopsis

A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer seek assistance from rival superpowers to rescue three gray whales that are trapped beneath the ice of the Arctic Circle.

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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 Cara SilvermanShot by John BaileyScored by Cliff EidelmanDesigned by Nelson Coates

Box Office

2012 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$24.7M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$24.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $20.2M — 82% of worldwide · International: $4.6M (18%)

Opening weekend: $7.8M — 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $9.3M — 46% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,129 theaters

Also known as

  • Alle lieben Walede
  • Der Ruf der Walede
  • Ruf der Walede
  • Miracle en Alaskafr
  • Qualcosa di straordinarioit

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