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Released
2018 · FILM

If Beale Street Could Talk

A pregnant young Black woman races against time to free her wrongfully convicted fiancé and prove his innocence before their baby arrives, battling a biased justice system and mounting pressure that threatens to tear their future apart.

Trust Love All The Way

Directed by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
120 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

When her fiancé is wrongfully imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman embarks on a mission to exonerate him and demonstrate his innocence.

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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 Joi McmillonShot by James LaxtonScored by Nicholas BritellDesigned by Mark Friedberg

Box Office

2018 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.7× 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

$20.6M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$20.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $313K

Peak 4 theaters

Also known as

  • Beale Streetde
  • Si Beale Street pouvait parlerfr
  • Se la strada potesse parlareit

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