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Released
2015 · FILM

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

A 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist in 1970s San Francisco navigates the chaotic terrain of adolescence while embarking on a secret and dangerous relationship with her mother’s boyfriend.

“Sex, drugs, and recordings of it all.”

Directed by
Marielle Heller
Written by
Phoebe Gloeckner, Marielle Heller
Runtime
102 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist coming of age in San Francisco during the 1970s. Curious about the world around her, she is a typical teenage girl in many ways. However, she is also involved in a relationship with her mother's boyfriend.

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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 Marie Helene DozoShot by Brandon TrostScored by Nate HellerDesigned by Jonah Markowitz

Box Office

2015 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$1.5M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$1.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $82K

Peak 4 theaters

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