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Released
1997 · FILM

Red Corner

An American attorney trapped in a Chinese courtroom must team with a determined local lawyer to clear his name and survive a murder charge before the foreign justice system condemns him forever.

Severity for those who resist.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
122 min
CrimeDramaThriller
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

An American attorney traveling to China for business becomes wrongfully accused of murder and must rely on a female defense lawyer from the country to prove his innocence.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Peter E BergerShot by Karl Walter LindenlaubScored by Thomas NewmanDesigned by Richard Sylbert

Box Office

1997 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$22.4M

Budget$48.0M
Worldwide gross$22.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Red Corner - Labyrinth ohne Auswegde
  • El laberinto rojoes
  • L'angolo rosso - Colpevole fino a prova contrariait

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