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Released
1998 · FILM

Hush

A pregnant young bride moves to her husband's Southern estate to help care for his ailing mother, but she soon discovers that the woman's sweet charm hides a dangerous jealousy that threatens to destroy her family.

Don't breathe a word.

Directed by
Runtime
95 min
DramaThriller

Synopsis

Jackson and Helen are in love and expecting their first child when they move in with Jackson's mother, Martha, to manage the family estate. However, tensions arise in the household. Martha, jealous of her son's affection for Helen, begins to display unsettling behavior behind her Southern charm. As Helen strives to build a happy home, Martha works to fracture the family, hoping to make Jackson hers alone.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Lynzee KlingmanShot by Andrew DunnScored by Christopher YoungDesigned by P Michael Johnston

Box Office

1998 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$13.6M

Budget$21.0M
Worldwide gross$13.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.7M 42% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.2M53% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,966 theaters

Also known as

  • Eisige Stillede
  • Du venin dans les veinesfr
  • Obsessionit

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