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Released
1995 · FILM

The Brothers McMullen

“Sometimes the Best Friends Are the Ones You've Known Your Whole Life.”

Directed by
Edward Burns
Written by
Edward Burns
Runtime
98 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

The film follows the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over the course of three months in the 1990s, as they confront fundamental ideas and values such as love, sex, marriage, religion, and family.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 12

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 Dick FisherScored by Seamus Egan

Box Office

1995 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 773× 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

$19.3M

Budget$25K
Worldwide gross$19.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $10.4M — 54% of worldwide · International: $8.9M (46%)

Opening weekend: $168K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $340K — 3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 7 theaters

Also known as

  • Kleine Sünden unter Brüdernde
  • Los hermanos McMullenes
  • Les Frères McMullenfr
  • I fratelli McMullenit

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