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Released
1999 · FILM

Jawbreaker

A ruthless high‑school queen and her clique scramble to conceal a deadly birthday prank before a nosy newcomer uncovers the truth, risking their reign and freedom.

Death totally bites.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
87 min
ComedyCrimeThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

On the morning of her birthday, a group of teenage socialites accidentally kills their best friend, and the three girls involved plot to conceal the truth.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Troy TakakiShot by Amy VincentScored by Stephen EndelmanDesigned by Jerry Fleming

Box Office

1999 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.0× 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

$3.1M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$3.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.6M 51% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.0M64% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 801 theaters

Also known as

  • Der zuckersüße Todde
  • Amiche cattiveit

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