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Released
2021 · FILM

Red Rocket

A down‑and‑out former porn star returns to his small Texas hometown hoping to reclaim his lost glory, only to become dangerously obsessed with a teenage doughnut shop clerk, threatening the fragile peace with his estranged family.

Everything's bigger in Texas.

Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
130 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

After hitting rock bottom in Los Angeles, former porn star Mikey Saber returns to his hometown in Texas to stay with his estranged wife and mother-in-law. Just as tensions begin to ease, he becomes infatuated with a young doughnut shop worker named Strawberry.

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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 Sean BakerShot by Drew DanielsDesigned by Stephonik

Box Office

2021 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.0× 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

$2.2M

Budget$1.1M
Worldwide gross$2.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $118K

Peak 6 theaters

Also known as

  • Red Rocket: Der Mit der Hunderutede

Companies

ProductionA24

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