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Released
2001 · FILM

Monster's Ball

A weary prison guard seeks redemption through a tentative romance with a grieving widow, only to have their fragile bond threatened when she discovers he executed her husband.

“A lifetime of change can happen in a single moment.”

Directed by
Marc Forster, Batou Chandler
Written by
Milo Addica, Will Rokos
Rated
FSK · FSK 16
Runtime
111 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

A prison guard starts a cautious romantic relationship with the unaware widow of a man whose execution he oversaw.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 190+ credited

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 Matt ChesseShot by Roberto SchaeferScored by Asche SpencerDesigned by Monroe KellySound by Rick AshStunts by Harry Harris IiiVFX by Colleen Duffy

Box Office

2001 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 11× 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

$44.9M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$44.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $31.3M — 70% of worldwide · International: $13.6M (30%)

Opening weekend: $111K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 7 theaters

Versions & cuts

  • unrated director's cut· 112 min

Also known as

  • Monster`s Ballde
  • À l'ombre de la hainefr
  • Monster's Ball - L'ombra della vitait
  • (Bulgarian)Балът на чудовището
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesNov 11, 2001
  • GermanyFeb 8, 2002
  • CanadaFeb 22, 2002

Companies

ProductionLionsgate, Lee Daniels Entertainment

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