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Released
2023 · FILM

Kandahar

An exposed CIA operative races across hostile Afghanistan with his Afghan translator toward a desperate extraction in Kandahar, pursued by elite enemy forces and shadowy foreign spies determined to silence them.

The only thing more dangerous than the mission is the escape.

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Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
119 min
ActionAdventureDrama

Synopsis

An undercover CIA operative, whose mission has been exposed, must escape from hostile territory in Afghanistan. Accompanied by his Afghan translator, he makes his way toward an extraction point in Kandahar while evading elite enemy forces and foreign spies assigned to track them down.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Colby Parker JrShot by MacgregorScored by David BuckleyDesigned by Vincent Reynaud

Box Office

2023 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$9.4M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$9.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $4.8M 51% of worldwide · International: $4.6M (49%)

Also known as

  • Kandaharde

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