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Requiem for a Dream(2000)
Released
2000 · FILM

Requiem for a Dream

Sara, a lonely widow obsessed with a mysterious game show invitation, spirals into a dangerous diet and drug-fueled delusion while her son Harry and his friend Tyrone battle addiction and desperation in their quest for a better life.

Directed by
Darren Aronofsky
Written by
Hubert Selby Jr, Darren Aronofsky
Rated
MPA · NR
Runtime
102 min
Drama

Synopsis

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered as their addictions intensify.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 82+ credited

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 Jay RabinowitzShot by Matthew LibatiqueScored by Clint MansellDesigned by James Chinlund

Box Office

2000 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.6× 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

$7.4M

Budget$4.5M
Worldwide gross$7.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $3.6M — 49% of worldwide · International: $3.8M (51%)

Opening weekend: $65K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $99K — 3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2 theaters

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