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Released
1993 · FILM

Blink

“What you can't see, can kill you.”

Directed by
Michael Apted
Written by
Dana Stevens
Runtime
106 min
CrimeDramaMystery

Synopsis

Emma is a young woman in her 20s who has been blind for two decades. After undergoing a new type of eye surgery, she regains partial sight, but experiences difficulties recalling visual information immediately—sometimes recognizing what she has seen only later. One night, she is awakened by a disturbance upstairs. Looking out from her door, she sees a shadowy figure moving down the stairs. Convinced that her neighbor has been murdered, she reports the incident to the police, though she later questions whether what she saw was real or a trick of her still-adjusting vision.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Rick ShaineShot by Dante SpinottiScored by Brad FiedelDesigned by Dan Bishop

Box Office

1994 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× 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

$16.7M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$16.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.4M — 26% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $6.6M — 40% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,527 theaters

Also known as

  • Blink - Tödliche Augenblickede
  • Sola en la penumbraes
  • Occhi nelle tenebreit

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