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Released
2007 · FILM

Savage Grace

A lonely socialite's obsessive love for her homosexual son spirals into a dark and deadly secret as their twisted relationship unravels in a shocking act of murder.

Truth is more shocking than fiction.

Directed by
Runtime
97 min
Drama

Synopsis

This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality—sometimes by seducing him herself—the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Enara GoikoetxeaShot by Juanmi AzpirozScored by Fernando VelazquezDesigned by Victor Molero

Box Office

2007 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$1.4M

Budget$4.6M
Worldwide gross$1.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Wilde Unschuldde

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