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Released
2007 · FILM

December Boys

Four teenage orphans at an Australian convent risk everything to win the love and adoption of a kind couple during a seaside vacation.

“After that summer nothing would be the same.”

Directed by
Rod Hardy
Written by
Ronald Kinnoch, Michael Noonan
Runtime
105 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

At an outback convent in Australia, four teenage orphans have long observed their younger peers being adopted, growing increasingly aware that they themselves may never find new families. In an effort to address this, the Reverend Mother sends the boys on a vacation by the seaside, where they encounter Teresa and Fearless, a couple who appear to be ideal adoptive parents. The boys then find themselves competing to be the one chosen by Teresa and Fearless for adoption.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Dany CooperShot by David ConnellScored by Carlo GiaccoDesigned by Leslie Binns

Box Office

2007 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$1.2M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$1.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • I ragazzi di dicembreit

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