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Released
2021 · FILM

Stillwater

An Oklahoma oil‑rig worker travels to Marseille to prove his incarcerated daughter's innocence, battling a hostile French justice system and cultural barriers before time runs out.

Secrets run deep.

Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
139 min
CrimeDramaMystery

Synopsis

Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, goes to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is incarcerated for a murder she claims she did not commit. Facing language barriers, cultural differences, and a complex legal system, Bill gradually builds a new life in France, taking it upon himself to prove his daughter's innocence.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

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 Tom McardleShot by Masanobu TakayanagiScored by Mychael DannaDesigned by Philip Messina

Box Office

2021 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 1.0× 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

$19.8M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$19.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $14.5M 73% of worldwide · International: $5.3M (27%)

Opening weekend: $5.2M 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.1M49% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,531 theaters

Also known as

  • Stillwater – Gegen jeden Verdachtde
  • La ragazza di Stillwaterit

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