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Released
2002 · FILM

Orange County

A determined surfer from Orange County fights to secure his dream spot at Stanford after a bureaucratic blunder derails his application, forcing him to outwit school officials and his own chaotic life before the deadline closes.

“It's not just a place. It's a state of mind.”

Directed by
Jake Kasdan
Written by
Mike White
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
82 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • MGM+

Synopsis

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer from Orange County who aspires to attend Stanford University to pursue a career in writing and escape his troubled home life. However, his plans are disrupted when his college application is rejected due to a mistake made by his guidance counselor, who submitted the incorrect form.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Tara TimponeShot by Greg GardinerScored by Michael AndrewsDesigned by Gary Frutkoff

Box Office

2002 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.4× 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

$43.3M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$43.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $41.1M — 95% of worldwide · International: $2.2M (5%)

Opening weekend: $15.1M — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $17.9M — 44% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,317 theaters

Also known as

  • Nix wie raus aus Orange Countyde

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