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Released
2003 · FILM

Northfork

“We are all angels. It is what we do with our wings that separates us.”

Directed by
Michael Polish
Written by
Mark Polish, Michael Polish
Runtime
103 min
DramaFantasy

Synopsis

In 1955, a major flood threatens the town of Northfork, Montana, as a new hydroelectric dam is set to be constructed in the mountains above, destined to flood the valley in the name of progress. A six-member Evacuation Committee is tasked with relocating the town's residents to higher ground. While most of the townspeople have left, a few holdouts remain, including a priest tending to a sick orphan. The boy, suffering from fever-induced visions, believes he is part of a wandering group of lost angels seeking a way home.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

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 Leo TrombettaShot by M David MullenScored by Stuart MatthewmanDesigned by Del Polish

Box Office

2003 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$1.6M

Budget$1.9M
Worldwide gross$1.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $89K

Peak 5 theaters

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