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Released
2002 · FILM

Hollywood Ending

A once‑celebrated director battling sudden blindness must decide whether to team up with his estranged wife on a risky new project, or watch his final chance at redemption slip away.

It's going to be a shot in the dark!

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
112 min
ComedyRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Woody Allen plays Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar-winning director who has fallen from grace and is now struggling to make a comeback. When an opportunity arises, Waxman faces a difficult choice: accept a project with his ex-wife Ellie or risk losing his final chance. The film explores whether Val is driven by love when he decides to reunite with Ellie, and whether Ellie's strong support is genuine or misguided. As the story unfolds, success depends on the film they create together.

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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 Alisa LepselterShot by Wedigo Von SchultzendorffDesigned by Santo Loquasto

Box Office

2002 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$14.6M

Budget$16.0M
Worldwide gross$14.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $4.9M 33% of worldwide · International: $9.7M (67%)

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