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Released
2001 · FILM

Tape

A nervous first‑time filmmaker races against time to debut his movie at a small Michigan festival, only to discover his charismatic old friend—who claims to be there for support—is secretly pulling the strings of a dangerous drug operation that threatens to ruin everything.

Some things can't be erased.

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Runtime
87 min
Drama

Synopsis

Jon, a first-time filmmaker, travels to Lansing, Michigan to showcase his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who now works as a volunteer firefighter and runs a small-time drug operation, also arrives in town to support Jon on his big day—or at least that's how it seems. Their reunion begins with loud greetings and familiar camaraderie, but beneath the surface, a sense of tension lingers.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 11

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 Sandra AdairShot by Maryse AlbertiDesigned by Stephen Beatrice

Box Office

2001 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.9× 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

$490K

Budget$100K
Worldwide gross$490K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $43K

Peak 7 theaters

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