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Released
2001 · FILM

Raw Spice

The Spice Girls Before Brides, Babies & Bust-ups

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Runtime
79 min
DocumentaryMusic

Synopsis

*Raw Spice* is a fly-on-the-wall documentary that chronicles the formation of a girl band in 1994, a group who would later become the biggest-selling girl band in history: the Spice Girls. The film was shot two years before the band's first hit single and captures the five girls living together in a small house in Maidenhead, rehearsing daily in pursuit of success. The documentary features their rehearsals and reveals their distinct personalities, which would later define the group. It includes previously unseen footage of the girls discussing their ambitions and fears, as well as showcasing their trademark bold behavior and moments of intense conflict. The film presents the girls before their blockbuster hits, weddings, children, and later disputes, and before the involvement of stylists, public relations teams, and makeup artists.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

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 Charles B FraterShot by Matthew Bowers

Box Office

2001 · Box office

Produced on a $220K budget

Production budget

$220K

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