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Released
2008 · FILM

Butterfly Dreaming

How do you know you're you?

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
85 min
DramaFantasy

Synopsis

Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness, addiction and affairs send the story spiraling towards its conclusion, the truth about what really happened to the professor's wife comes into focus.

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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 Meg RamsayShot by Kev RobertsonScored by Matthew McgaugheyDesigned by Laura Paddock

Box Office

2008 · Box office

Produced on a $1.0M budget

Production budget

$1.0M

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