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Released
2002 · FILM

Stolen Summer

An eight-year-old Catholic boy in 1970s Chicago befriends a terminally ill Jewish boy and becomes consumed with a desperate mission: to save his new friend's soul before summer ends.

“You saw the back-stabbing. Now see the final cut.”

Directed by
Pete Jones
Written by
Pete Jones
Runtime
91 min
Drama

Synopsis

Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he

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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 Gregg FeathermanShot by Peter BiagiScored by Danny LuxDesigned by Devorah Herbert

Box Office

2002 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$163K

Budget$1.8M
Worldwide gross$163K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $87K

Peak 13 theaters

Also known as

  • Stolen Summer - Der letzte Sommerde
  • L'ultima estate - Ricordi di un'amiciziait

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