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Released
2001 · FILM

My First Mister

“Mismatched. Misguided. Unmistakably friends.”

Directed by
Christine Lahti
Written by
Jill Franklyn
Runtime
109 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

Leelee Sobieski portrays a teenage girl who is brash, abrasive, and vulnerable, the child of a divorce who conceals her pain through a hard-edged, gothic exterior. Albert Brooks plays a man in stark contrast to her—a precise, well-ordered menswear store owner in his late forties who manages his limited expectations and guards his loneliness through quiet rituals and an ironic, reserved demeanor. The two, despite their differences, come into conflict before forming an unexpected alliance that ultimately changes both of their lives.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Wendy Greene BricmontShot by Jeffrey JurScored by Steve PorcaroDesigned by Dan Bishop

Box Office

2001 · 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

$595K

Budget$5.3M
Worldwide gross$595K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $139K

Peak 33 theaters

Also known as

  • My first Mister - Mein erster richtiger Freundde
  • Educando a J.es

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