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Released
1998 · FILM

The Acid House

Directed by
Paul Mcguigan
Written by
Irvine Welsh
Runtime
107 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

A surreal triptych adapted by *Trainspotting* author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories, the film combines a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama. It explores the lives of the chemical generation, reaching into their hearts and minds while casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Andrew HulmeShot by Alasdair WalkerScored by Dan MudfordDesigned by Richard Bridgland

Box Office

1998 · 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

$143K

Budget$900K
Worldwide gross$143K
break-even (2.5×)

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  • The Acid Housede

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