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Released
2002 · FILM

Tadpole

“Everyone says he should date girls his own age. Oscar respectfully disagrees.”

Directed by
Gary Winick
Written by
Heather Mcgowan, Niels Mueller
Runtime
79 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

Oscar Grubman is surrounded by beautiful and sophisticated women. He is sensitive and compassionate, fluent in French, and deeply passionate about Voltaire, believing that a woman's hands reveal the most about her. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend about his plans for the vacation—he intends to win the heart of his true love. The problem is that Oscar's true love is his stepmother, Eve.

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The scale of the collaboration

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 Susan LittenbergShot by Hubert TaczanowskiScored by Renaud PionDesigned by Anthony Gasparro

Box Office

2002 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 19× 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

$2.9M

Budget$150K
Worldwide gross$2.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $127K

Peak 6 theaters

Also known as

  • Alle lieben Oscarde
  • Séduction en mode mineurfr

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