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Released
2012 · FILM

Smashed

A devoted teacher’s love for partying spirals into destructive addiction, forcing her to choose sobriety or lose her marriage, career, and sense of self as she battles the relentless grip of alcohol.

Directed by
Runtime
85 min
Drama

Synopsis

Kate and Charlie enjoy a vibrant social life, with their marriage built on a mutual love of music, laughter, and indulgence. However, when Kate's partying escalates into antisocial behavior, it begins to affect her job as an elementary schoolteacher. As the situation worsens, it becomes clear that a change is necessary. Sobriety forces her to face the lies she has told at work, her complicated relationship with her mother, and the true nature of her connection with Charlie.

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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 Suzanne SpanglerShot by Tobias DatumScored by Andy CabicDesigned by Linda Sena

Box Office

2012 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$377K

Budget$500K
Worldwide gross$377K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $39K

Peak 4 theaters

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