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Released
2004 · FILM

Birth

A grieving widow ready to remarry must confront a mysterious ten‑year‑old who insists he is the reincarnation of her dead husband, forcing her to choose between embracing a new life or being consumed by an unsettling past.

Careful what you wish for.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
100 min
DramaFantasyMystery

Synopsis

Anna spends ten years recovering from the death of her husband, Sean, before she is close to marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and beginning a new chapter in her life. On the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean appears, claiming to be her deceased husband reincarnated. Initially, Anna dismisses him, but his detailed knowledge of her former husband's life leads her to consider the possibility that he may be telling the truth.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Sam SneadeShot by Harris SavidesScored by Alexandre DesplatDesigned by Kevin Thompson

Box Office

2004 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× 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

$23.9M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$23.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $5.1M 21% of worldwide · International: $18.8M (79%)

Opening weekend: $1.3M 25% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $1.3M25% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 550 theaters

Also known as

  • Reencarnaciónes
  • Birth - Io sono Seanit

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