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Released
2001 · FILM

The Brothers

“There is nothing like a good woman to make a brother want to be a man.”

Directed by
Gary Hardwick
Written by
Gary Hardwick
Runtime
106 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Starz

Synopsis

The story follows four African-American "yuppies"—a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy"—who refer to themselves as "The Brothers." When the playboy becomes engaged, the other three friends are forced to confront their own personal struggles with commitment and honesty.

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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 Earl WatsonShot by Alexander GruszynskiScored by Marcus MillerDesigned by Amy B Ancona

Box Office

2001 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.7× 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

$27.9M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$27.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $27.5M — 98% of worldwide · International: $443K (2%)

Opening weekend: $10.3M — 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $12.5M — 46% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,378 theaters

Also known as

  • The Brothers - Auf der Suche nach der Frau des Lebensde

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