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Released
1991 · FILM

Rambling Rose

“Innocence has never been so seductive.”

Directed by
Martha Coolidge
Written by
Calder Willingham
Runtime
112 min
Drama

Synopsis

In the Deep South during the 1930s, Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a housemaid in order to prevent her from falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearance and personality attract the attention of all the men around her, and she is well aware of this effect. She struggles to resist the temptation to become involved with men, often finding herself in trouble as a result.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Steven CohenShot by Johnny E JensenScored by Elmer BernsteinDesigned by John Vallone

Box Office

1991 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$6.3M

Budget$7.5M
Worldwide gross$6.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $315K — 5% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $446K — 7% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 26 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Lust der schönen Rosede
  • Rosa scompiglio e i suoi amantiit

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