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Released
1994 · FILM

Frankenstein

A brilliant but grief‑stricken doctor races to defy nature by reanimating dead tissue, only to confront the monstrous consequences of his own hubris as his creation threatens everything he loves.

“Be warned.”

Directed by
Kenneth Branagh
Written by
Mary Shelley, Steph Lady
Rated
Czech Republic · U
Runtime
123 min
DramaHorrorRomance

Synopsis

Victor Frankenstein is a young and ambitious doctor who becomes consumed with grief after his mother dies during childbirth. This tragedy leads him to pursue the forbidden science of reanimation, driven by a desire to conquer death itself. Through his experiments, he assembles a creature from the remains of dead bodies and brings it to life. However, upon seeing the results of his work, Frankenstein is horrified and soon begins to regret his actions.

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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 Roger PrattScored by Patrick DoyleDesigned by Tim Harvey

Box Office

1994 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$22.0M

Budget$45.0M
Worldwide gross$22.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $11.2M — 51% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $14.2M — 65% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,177 theaters

Also known as

  • Mary Shelley’s Frankensteinde
  • Mary Shelleys Frankensteinde
  • Mary Shelly`s Frankensteinde

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