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Released
1995 · FILM

The Cure

The best cure for a disease is friendship.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
97 min
AdventureDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Erik, a solitary individual, forms a friendship with Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy living with AIDS. The two make a promise to find a cure for the disease together, hoping to save Dexter's life during an eventful summer.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Anthony SherinShot by Andrew DintenfassScored by Dave GrusinDesigned by Armin Ganz

Box Office

1995 · Box office

Grossed $2.6M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$2.6M

Worldwide gross$2.6M

Opening weekend: $1.2M 47% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.5M59% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 832 theaters

Also known as

  • Mississippi - Fluss der Hoffnungde
  • Amici per sempreit

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