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Released
2009 · FILM

City Island

A weary corrections officer tries to protect his eccentric family's fragile harmony when a charismatic young ex‑con moves in, forcing hidden ambitions and secrets into the open before everything unravels.

“Truth is stranger than family”

Directed by
Raymond De Felitta
Written by
Raymond De Felitta
Runtime
104 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Starz

Synopsis

The Rizzos are a family in which members do not share their habits, aspirations, or careers with one another. Their fragile network of secrets is disrupted by the arrival of a young ex-con, whom Vince, the family patriarch and a real-life corrections officer, brings home. Vince also pursues acting in his private life.

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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 LeonardShot by Vanja CernjulScored by Jan A P KaczmarekDesigned by Franckie Diago

Box Office

2009 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× 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

$7.9M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$7.9M
break-even (2.5×)

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  • Meet the Rizzosde

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