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Released
2003 · FILM

Owning Mahowny

A charismatic Toronto bank manager secretly siphons millions to feed his gambling obsession, racing against relentless investigators before his double life shatters everything.

“The true story of a mild mannered banker and his magnificent obsession.”

Directed by
Richard Kwietniowski
Written by
Gary Stephen Ross, Maurice Chauvet
Runtime
104 min
CrimeDramaThriller

Synopsis

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four, he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues, he was a workaholic; to his customers, he was astute, decisive, and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny—the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.

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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 Mike MunnShot by Oliver CurtisScored by Richard Grassby LewisDesigned by Taavo Soodor

Box Office

2003 · 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

$1.3M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$1.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $50K

Peak 9 theaters

Also known as

  • Owning Mahowny - Nichts geht mehrde
  • La doppia vita di Mahownyit

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