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Released
1997 · FILM

Lawn Dogs

“Innocence is a dangerous friend.”

Directed by
John Duigan
Written by
Naomi Wallace
Runtime
101 min
Drama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives engage in indiscriminate affairs while their unsuspecting husbands strive to ascend the social ladder. Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, silently observes the infidelities and hypocrisies of the overly privileged residents. When Devon, a 10-year-old girl from one of the families, forms a friendship with Trent, the situation becomes increasingly complicated.

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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 Humphrey DixonShot by Elliot DavisScored by Trevor JonesDesigned by John Myhre

Box Office

1997 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× 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

$106K

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$106K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Heimliche Freundede
  • Lawn Dogs – Heimliche Freundede
  • Inocencia rebeldees

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