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Released
2002 · FILM

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

When a group of misfit Catholic schoolboys plan a daring heist to steal a statue from their church, they must confront the consequences of their rebellion, their faith, and the secrets that bind them.

Forgive me father, for I am 14.

Directed by
Runtime
104 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Starz

Synopsis

A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Chris PeppeShot by Lance AcordScored by Marco BeltramiDesigned by Gideon Ponte

Box Office

2002 · 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

$2.0M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$2.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $88K

Peak 9 theaters

Also known as

  • Lost Heavende
  • Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boysen

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