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Released
2024 · FILM

Small Things Like These

In 1985 Ireland, a coal merchant uncovers dark secrets hidden by the local convent, forcing him to confront the truth about his family, his faith, and the silence that binds a town under the shadow of the Catholic Church.

“If you want to get on in life, there’s things you have to ignore so you can keep on.”

Directed by
Tim Mielants
Written by
Enda Walsh, Claire Keegan
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
99 min
Drama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own, forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Alain DessauvageShot by Frank Van Den EedenScored by Senjan JansenDesigned by Paki Smith

Box Office

2024 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.2× 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

$12.5M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$12.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $1.6M — 13% of worldwide · International: $10.9M (87%)

Opening weekend: $596K — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $940K — 59% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 799 theaters

Also known as

  • Kleine Dinge wie diesede
  • Tu ne mentiras pointfr
  • Piccole cose come questeit

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