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The Fountain(2006)
Released
2006 · FILM

The Fountain

A grieving surgeon races against his dying wife’s brain tumor to unlock a centuries‑old Guatemalan remedy, confronting his own obsession as history, myth, and modern science collide.

“What if you could live forever?”

Directed by
Darren Aronofsky
Written by
Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
96 min
DramaMysteryRomance
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

The Fountain is a film that spans over one thousand years and intertwines three parallel stories, exploring themes of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of human existence.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 51+ credited

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 Jay RabinowitzShot by Matthew LibatiqueScored by Clint MansellDesigned by James Chinlund

Box Office

2006 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$15.3M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$15.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $1.7M

Peak 1,472 theaters

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Also known as

  • The Fountain - Quell des Lebensde
  • La fuente de la vidaes

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