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Released
2005 · FILM

The Derby Stallion

The heart of a boy. The soul of a champion. The friendship of a lifetime.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
98 min
Drama

Synopsis

An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.

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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 Susan GraefShot by John C GuntzelmanScored by Billy PrestonDesigned by Margaret M Miles

Box Office

2005 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.3× 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

$4.0M

Budget$750K
Worldwide gross$4.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Teenage Champion – Go for Gold!de
  • Un cœur gagnantfr

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