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Released
2004 · FILM

Speak

A mute freshman must find the courage to break her silence and expose the truth about a brutal assault, even as she faces ostracism, family neglect, and the threat of powerful peers.

The Truth Will Change Everything.

Directed by
Runtime
93 min
Drama

Synopsis

Melinda, a freshman high school student, has stopped speaking since she called the police on a popular summer party. Her former friends have distanced themselves, accusing her of being a snitch, while her parents remain too preoccupied to recognize her struggles. She retreats inward, keeping a painful secret: that star senior Andy raped her at the party. Despite her isolation, Melinda finds some comfort in her art class, taught by Mr. Freeman.

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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

Shot by Andrij ParekhScored by Christopher LibertinoDesigned by Laura Ballinger

Box Office

2004 · Box office

Produced on a $1.0M budget

Production budget

$1.0M

Also known as

  • Speak – Die Wahrheit ändert allesde

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