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Released
1983 · FILM

Breathless

“He's the last man on earth any woman needs...and every woman wants.”

Directed by
Jim Mcbride
Written by
L M Kit Carson, Jim Mcbride
Runtime
100 min
ActionDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Jesse, a small-time criminal, flees to Los Angeles to meet with a French exchange student. After stealing a car and accidentally killing a highway patrolman, he becomes the most wanted fugitive in the city.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Robert EstrinShot by Richard H KlineScored by Jack NitzscheDesigned by Richard Sylbert

Box Office

1983 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.7× 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

$19.9M

Budget$7.5M
Worldwide gross$19.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.4M — 22% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $6.1M — 31% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,161 theaters

Re-release box office

20217 theaters
$68K($83K today)
201012 theaters
$568K($861K today)
Total re-release
$635K

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Atemlosde
  • À bout de souffle, made in USAfr
  • All'ultimo respiroit

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