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Released
1977 · FILM

Desperate Living

The world may never be the same again!

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
91 min
ComedyCrimeFantasy

Synopsis

After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda end up in the bizarre town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta rules over a seedy group of misfits.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 14

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 Charles RoggeroShot by Thomas LoizeauxScored by Chris Lobinger

Box Office

1977 · Box office

Produced on a $65K budget

Production budget

$65K

Also known as

  • Nuovo punk storyit

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