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Released
1993 · FILM

Boxing Helena

A brilliant but emotionally unstable surgeon becomes obsessed with a woman who spurned him, leading him to trap her in a twisted game of love and control after a tragic accident leaves her at his mercy.

Beyond love, beyond obsession, there hides something beyond reason.

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Runtime
107 min
DramaMysteryRomance

Synopsis

A top surgeon becomes infatuated with a beautiful woman who previously rejected him. Struggling to accept life without her, he attempts to persuade her that they are meant for each other. She is uninterested, but a devastating accident leaves her dependent on his care.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 David FinferShot by Bojan BazelliScored by Graeme RevellDesigned by Paul Huggins

Box Office

1993 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$1.8M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$1.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $958K 53% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $958K53% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 161 theaters

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