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Released
2011 · FILM

Higher Ground

Directed by
Vera Farmiga
Written by
Carolyn S Briggs, Tim Metcalfe
Runtime
109 min
Drama

Synopsis

Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark World, the film tells the story of a thoughtful woman's struggles with belief, love, and trust - in human relationships as well as in God.

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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 Colleen SharpShot by Michael McdonoughScored by Alec PuroDesigned by Sharon Lomofsky

Box Office

2011 · 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

$842K

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$842K
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

20124 theaters
$4K($5K today)
201181 theaters
$1.4M($2.1M today)
Total re-release
$1.4M

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Higher Ground - Der Ruf nach Gottde
  • En tierras altases

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