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Dallas Buyers Club(2013)
Released
2013 · FILM

Dallas Buyers Club

A defiant Dallas electrician diagnosed with AIDS battles a hostile medical system and societal prejudice to secure life‑saving experimental drugs before his dwindling days run out.

“Dare to live.”

Directed by
Jean Marc Vallee
Written by
Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
117 min
BiographyDrama

Synopsis

In 1985 in Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof begins working around the system to help AIDS patients obtain the medication they need after being diagnosed with the disease himself.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 52+ 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 Jean Marc ValleeShot by Yves BelangerDesigned by John Paino

Box Office

2013 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 11× 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

$55.7M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$55.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $27.3M — 49% of worldwide · International: $28.4M (51%)

Opening weekend: $261K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $354K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 9 theaters

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