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Released
1999 · FILM

Sweet and Lowdown

A talented yet egotistical 1930s jazz guitarist battles ruthless gangsters to achieve musical glory and win the heart of a mute laundress who holds his only hope for redemption.

Directed by
Woody Allen
Written by
Woody Allen
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
95 min
ComedyDramaMusic
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters, and falls in love with a mute woman.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

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 Alisa LepselterShot by Fei ZhaoDesigned by Santo Loquasto

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$4.5M

Budget$29.8M
Worldwide gross$4.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $4.2M — 93% of worldwide · International: $329K (7%)

Opening weekend: $95K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $141K — 3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3 theaters

Also known as

  • Accords et Désaccordsfr
  • Accordi e disaccordiit

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