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Released
1981 · FILM

On Golden Pond

A cantankerous retired professor and his spirited wife spend a summer at their lakeside cottage trying to mend the strained bond with their estranged daughter, whose arrival forces them to confront aging and family secrets before it's too late.

“When life is at its finest... when love is at its fullest...”

Directed by
Mark Rydell
Written by
Ernest Thompson
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
109 min
Drama

Synopsis

For Norman and Ethel Thayer, the summer at Golden Pond is marked by conflict and eventual resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is compelled to rekindle their bonds of love and address the generational tensions that have persisted for years.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Robert L WolfeShot by Billy WilliamsScored by Dave GrusinDesigned by Stephen B Grimes

Box Office

1981 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.0× 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

$119.3M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$119.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $89K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $153K — 0% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2 theaters

Also known as

  • Am goldenen Seede
  • La Maison du lacfr
  • Sul lago doratoit

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