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Released
2002 · FILM

Raising Victor Vargas

Directed by
Peter Sollett
Written by
Peter Sollett, Eva Vives
Runtime
88 min
DramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Victor, a teenager from the Lower East Side, navigates the challenges of his eccentric family, which includes his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who idolizes him. As he manages family dynamics, he also attempts to win the affection of Judy, a careful and calculating woman when it comes to her relationships with men.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Myron KersteinShot by Tim OrrScored by Roy NathansonDesigned by Judy Becker

Box Office

2002 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.5× 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

$2.8M

Budget$800K
Worldwide gross$2.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Sommer in New Yorkde
  • Camino a casaes
  • Long Way Homefr

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