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Released
1987 · FILM

Maurice

A reserved young man in Edwardian England pursues true love while battling societal expectations, and must choose between conformity and his own emerging identity.

A love story of unforgettable passion.

Directed by
Runtime
140 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

After his lover rejects him, Maurice tries to come to terms with his sexuality within the constraints of Edwardian society.

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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 Katherine WenningShot by Pierre LhommeScored by Richard RobbinsDesigned by Brian Ackland Snow

Box Office

1987 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$2.4M

Budget$2.6M
Worldwide gross$2.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $49K 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $95K4% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1 theaters

Re-release box office

20174 theaters
$69K($94K today)

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

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