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Released
2018 · FILM

Life Itself

A young New York couple's journey from love to parenthood unravels a chain of fate that spans generations, as their choices ripple through time, entwining lives they’ll never meet.

“Life will surprise you”

Directed by
Dan Fogelman
Written by
Dan Fogelman
Runtime
118 min
DramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video
  • Tubi

Synopsis

A young couple from New York experiences a romance that begins in college, leading to marriage and the birth of their first child. The unexpected turns in their journey produce reverberations that extend across continents and through many lifetimes.

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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 Julie MonroeShot by Doug DurantScored by Federico JusidDesigned by Gerald Sullivan

Box Office

2018 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$8.0M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$8.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $3.0M

Peak 2,609 theaters

Also known as

  • So ist das Leben - Life Itselfde
  • Seule la vie...fr
  • Seule la vie... Life itselffr
  • La vita in un attimoit

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