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Released
2003 · FILM

Mambo Italiano

Things change. Family doesn't.

Directed by
Runtime
89 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

An Italian man coming out of the closet has an impact on both his life and his eccentric family.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Richard ComeauShot by Serge LadouceurScored by Fm Le SieurDesigned by Patricia Christie

Box Office

2003 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$3.0M

Budget$4.4M
Worldwide gross$3.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $722K

Peak 99 theaters

Re-release box office

2003183 theaters
$5.3M($9.5M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

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