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Released
1968 · FILM

Rachel, Rachel

“Who cares about a 35 year old virgin?”

Directed by
Paul Newman
Written by
Stewart Stern, Margaret Laurence
Runtime
101 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

Rachel, 35, works as a school teacher and lives with her mother. She has no romantic partner. After a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she must decide how to shape her future.

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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 Dede AllenShot by Gayne RescherScored by Jerome Moross

Box Office

1968 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.8× 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

$3.0M

Budget$780K
Worldwide gross$3.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die Liebe eines Sommersde
  • Raquel, Raqueles
  • La prima volta di Jenniferit

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