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Released
1997 · FILM

Rosewood

In 1923, a black town in Florida was burned to the ground, its people murdered because of a lie. Some escaped and survived because of the courage and compassion of a few extraordinary people. This film is for them.

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Runtime
142 min
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Synopsis

In 1923, a white woman's false accusation led to the destruction of a Black town in Florida by a mob of vigilantes, who attacked and killed its residents.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Bruce CannonShot by Johnny E JensenScored by John WilliamsDesigned by Paul Sylbert

Box Office

1997 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$13.1M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$13.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.2M 24% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.3M33% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 991 theaters

Also known as

  • Rosewood Burningde

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