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Released
1987 · FILM

Gardens of Stone

“The story of the war at home, and the people who lived through it.”

Directed by
Francis Ford Coppola
Written by
Ron Bass, Nicholas Proffitt
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
111 min
DramaRomanceWar

Synopsis

A sergeant grapples with his desire to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Repeatedly denied the opportunity to share his experiences with them, he instead focuses on helping the son of an old Army friend.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 125+ 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 Barry MalkinShot by Jordan CronenwethScored by Carmine CoppolaDesigned by Dean TavoularisCostumes by Willa Kim

Box Office

1987 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$5.3M

Budget$13.5M
Worldwide gross$5.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.6M — 31% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $2.2M — 42% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 612 theaters

Also known as

  • Der steinerne Gartende
  • jardins de pierrefr
  • Giardini di pietrait

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