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Released
2000 · FILM

Chocolat

A resilient widowed mother opens a chocolate shop in a devout French village, determined to bring sweetness and community together while battling the town’s austere mayor who condemns her indulgence during Lent.

“One taste is all it takes.”

Directed by
Lasse Hallstrom, Stephen P Dunn
Written by
Joanne Harris, Robert Nelson Jacobs
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
121 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 495+ credited

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 Andrew MondsheinShot by Roger PrattScored by Rachel PortmanDesigned by David GropmanSound by Tom FleischmanCostumes by John NorsterStunts by Richard HammattVFX by Antony Hunt

Box Office

2000 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.1× 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

$152.7M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$152.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $71.5M — 47% of worldwide · International: $81.2M (53%)

Opening weekend: $158K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $249K — 0% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 8 theaters

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Also known as

  • Chocolat - Ein kleiner Biss genügtde
  • Le Chocolatfr

Companies

ProductionMiramax, David Brown Productions, Fat Free

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