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Released
2022 · FILM

Brian and Charles

Some friendships are built to last.

Directed by
Runtime
91 min
ComedyDramaSci-Fi

Synopsis

Brian lives alone in a Welsh valley, where he spends his time inventing peculiar contraptions that rarely function. After discovering a discarded mannequin head, he begins a project that takes three days, a washing machine, and various spare parts to complete: the creation of Charles, an artificially intelligent robot who learns English from a dictionary. Charles becomes a charming and cheeky companion to Brian. However, Charles soon begins to develop autonomy, showing curiosity about the wider world beyond the cottage where Brian has kept him hidden.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Jo WalkerShot by Murren TullettScored by Daniel PembertonDesigned by Hannah Purdy Foggin

Box Office

2022 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$216K

Budget$1.2M
Worldwide gross$216K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $344K

Peak 279 theaters

Also known as

  • Brian y Charleses
  • Brian e Charlesit

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