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Released
1995 · FILM

Safe

A suburban housewife’s quest to diagnose a baffling illness spirals into a terrifying battle against an invisible, all‑consuming threat lurking in her everyday world.

In the 21st century nobody will be… Safe.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
119 min
Drama

Synopsis

Carol White is a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who develops a severe illness that cannot be clearly diagnosed.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 James LyonsShot by Alex NepomniaschyScored by Ed TomneyDesigned by David J Bomba

Box Office

1995 · 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

$513K

Budget$1.0M
Worldwide gross$513K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $26K

Peak 1 theaters

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