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Released
2001 · FILM

Hearts in Atlantis

A grieving mother and her son must navigate the unsettling arrival of a mysterious stranger whose hidden motives threaten to upend their fragile world.

What if one of life's great mysteries moved in upstairs?

Directed by
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
101 min
DramaMystery

Synopsis

A widowed mother and her son experience a transformation when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Pip KarmelShot by Piotr SobocinskiScored by Mychael DannaDesigned by Barbara Ling

Box Office

2001 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$24.2M

Budget$31.0M
Worldwide gross$24.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $9.0M 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $11.4M47% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,751 theaters

Also known as

  • Hearts in Atlantis - Das Rätsel eines Sommersde
  • Cœurs perdus en Atlantidefr
  • Cuori in Atlantideit

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