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Released
1993 · FILM

Shadowlands

Renowned scholar C.S. Lewis seeks to embrace love and intellectual partnership with spirited poet Joy Gresham, only to have her terminal illness force him into a profound crisis of faith and purpose.

“He distanced himself from love as he distanced himself from pain, until one woman got close enough to open his heart to the world.”

Directed by
Richard Attenborough
Written by
William Nicholson
Runtime
131 min
BiographyDramaRomance

Synopsis

C.S. Lewis, a well-known writer and professor, leads a quiet life until he meets the lively poet Joy Gresham.

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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 Lesley WalkerShot by Roger PrattScored by George FentonDesigned by Stuart Craig

Box Office

1993 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× 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

$25.8M

Budget$22.0M
Worldwide gross$25.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $81K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $184K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3 theaters

Also known as

  • Shadowlands - Ein Geschenk des Augenblicksde
  • Les Ombres du cœurfr
  • Viaggio in Inghilterrait

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