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Released
2019 · FILM

Dark Waters

A tenacious corporate lawyer takes on a chemical giant after a grieving farmer reveals a wave of mysterious cattle deaths, forcing him to uncover a decades‑long environmental cover‑up that threatens the health of an entire community.

“The truth has a man on the inside.”

Directed by
Todd Haynes, Timothy Bird
Written by
Nathaniel Rich, Mario Correa
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
126 min
BiographyDramaHistory
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A determined lawyer discovers a troubling link between a series of unexplained deaths and one of the world's largest corporations. As he investigates further, he puts his future, his family, and his life in jeopardy to reveal the truth.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 364+ 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 Affonso GoncalvesShot by Edward LachmanScored by Marcelo ZarvosDesigned by Hannah BeachlerSound by Drew KuninCostumes by Christopher PetersonStunts by Richard FikeVFX by Ed Chapman

Box Office

2019 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$13.6M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$13.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $11.1M — 82% of worldwide · International: $2.5M (18%)

Opening weekend: $103K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $344K — 3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4 theaters

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Also known as

  • Vergiftete Wahrheitde
  • Dry Runfr
  • Cattive acqueit
  • (Bulgarian)Тъмни води
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United StatesNov 12, 2019
  • IndonesiaNov 27, 2019
  • PhilippinesNov 27, 2019
  • CanadaNov 29, 2019

Companies

ProductionParticipant, Willi Hill, Killer Content

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