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Released
1997 · FILM

Gummo

Two aimless teenagers wander the tornado‑ravaged streets of Xenia, Ohio, seeking distraction and purpose while confronting the surreal, unsettling lives of their broken community.

Prepare to visit a town you'd never want to call home.

Directed by
Written by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
89 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Teenagers Solomon and Tummler pass the time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has not fully recovered from the tornado that devastated the community in the 1970s.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Christopher TellefsenShot by Jean Yves EscoffierDesigned by David Doernberg

Box Office

1997 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$117K

Budget$1.3M
Worldwide gross$117K
break-even (2.5×)

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