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Released
1996 · FILM

Heaven's Prisoners

For an ex-cop obsessed with an unsolved murder, trusting the wrong woman could be a deadly choice.

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Runtime
132 min
DramaMysteryThriller

Synopsis

Dave Robicheaux, a seasoned New Orleans police officer, resigns from the force and moves to the bayou with his wife to start a quieter life. However, he is drawn back into danger when a strange plane crash leads to his family being violently threatened.

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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 William SteinkampShot by Harris SavidesScored by George FentonDesigned by John Stoddart

Box Office

1996 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$5.0M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$5.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.3M 46% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.9M57% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 907 theaters

Also known as

  • Mississippi Delta – Im Sumpf der Rachede
  • Prisioneros del cieloes
  • Vengeance froidefr
  • Omicidio a New Orleansit

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