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Released
2015 · FILM

I Smile Back

“Love desperately, live recklessly.”

Directed by
Adam Salky
Written by
Paige Dylan, Amy Koppelman
Runtime
85 min
DramaMysteryRomance

Synopsis

Laney is a suburban wife and mother of two children. She appears to have an ideal life, with a supportive husband, a well-maintained home, and a reliable vehicle for family activities. However, beneath this image, she struggles with depression and disillusionment, leading her into a pattern of reckless behavior. It takes a serious threat to push her to confront the underlying causes of her self-destructive tendencies and the impact they have on her family.

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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 Tamara MeemShot by Eric LinScored by Zack RyanDesigned by Brandon Tonner Connolly

Box Office

2015 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$63K

Budget$495K
Worldwide gross$63K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $22K

Peak 2 theaters

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