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Released
2015 · FILM

Tangerine

Transgender sex worker Sin‑Dee bursts out of jail on Christmas Eve and races through the neon‑lit streets of Los Angeles to expose her pimp boyfriend’s infidelity, confronting a maze of rival crews and dangerous secrets before the night ends.

“Shit floats to the surface”

Directed by
Sean Baker, Sean Baker Nm0048918
Written by
Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
87 min
ComedyCrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Fubo
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Set on Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, the story follows Sin-Dee, a sex worker who has just been released from a 28-day prison sentence. Learning that her pimp boyfriend may have been unfaithful during her absence, she teams up with her best friend, Alexandra, to investigate the troubling rumor. Their journey takes them through multiple subcultures of the city, including an Armenian family grappling with the fallout of their own infidelity.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Sean Baker

Box Office

2015 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.3× 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

$925K

Budget$100K
Worldwide gross$925K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $90K

Peak 4 theaters

Also known as

  • Tangerine L.A.de

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