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Released
2002 · FILM

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

A young playwright teams up with her lifelong friends to confront buried family secrets and heal her fractured relationship with her mother before the truth destroys them all.

The Secret Is Out.

Directed by
Runtime
116 min
Drama

Synopsis

In a quiet Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends organize an unconventional intervention to assist a young playwright in uncovering the truth about her complex mother and moving past her painful history.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Andrew MarcusShot by John BaileyScored by T Bone BurnettDesigned by David J Bomba

Box Office

2002 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 2.7× 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

$73.8M

Budget$27.0M
Worldwide gross$73.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $69.6M 94% of worldwide · International: $4.2M (6%)

Also known as

  • Die göttlichen Geheimnisse der Ya-Ya Schwesternde
  • Die göttlichen Geheimnisse der Ya-Ya-Schwesternde
  • Les Divins Secretsfr
  • I sublimi segreti delle Ya-Ya sistersit

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