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Released
2002 · FILM

Sonny

“His life was the morning after, until he decided to change the night before.”

Directed by
Nicolas Cage
Written by
John Carlen
Runtime
110 min
CrimeDrama

Synopsis

In 1981 New Orleans, Sonny Phillips returns home after being discharged from the Army. He has spent his life working as a gigolo for his mother but wishes to leave that occupation behind. The job promised by his Army friend fails to materialize, leaving him unable to escape his past.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Howard E SmithShot by Barry MarkowitzScored by Clint MansellDesigned by Monroe Kelly

Box Office

2002 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× 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

$132K

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$132K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $30K

Peak 6 theaters

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