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Released
1999 · FILM

Simpatico

Directed by
Runtime
106 min
CrimeDrama

Synopsis

As teenagers in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie run a racing scam, replacing winning horses with slower ones and profiting from long odds. When an official discovers the scheme, they blackmail him to keep it secret. Twenty years later, Carter and Rosie are married and successful racers in Kentucky, preparing to sell their prized stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie, now a drifter and alcoholic in Pomona, becomes infatuated with Rosie and lures Carter to California, stealing his wallet and taking the original blackmail evidence with him. Carter pleads with Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to track him down and retrieve the material from a box he is carrying. Whether she succeeds remains to be seen.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Pasquale BubaShot by John TollScored by Stewart CopelandDesigned by Amy B Ancona

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$930K

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$930K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Inganni pericolosiit

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