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Released
2006 · FILM

Lonely Hearts

Two determined detectives race against time to stop a charming yet murderous couple who lure victims through personal ads, risking their own lives to prevent a reign of deadly deception.

True love can be murder.

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Written by
Runtime
108 min
BiographyCrimeDrama

Synopsis

In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers" killed close to a dozen people. Two detectives attempt to capture the duo, who find their victims through personal advertisements in the newspaper.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Kathryn HimoffShot by Peter LevyScored by Mychael DannaDesigned by Jon Gary Steele

Box Office

2006 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$2.5M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$2.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Lonely Hearts Killersde
  • Corazones solitarioses
  • Cœurs perdusfr

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