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Released
2009 · FILM

The Girlfriend Experience

A high-end call girl who sells intimacy as "the girlfriend experience" finds her luxurious New York life unraveling when a new client threatens to expose the fragile line between her professional persona and personal reality.

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Runtime
77 min
Drama

Synopsis

Chelsea is a high-end call girl who charges $2,000 an hour, enabling her to live a luxurious life in New York City. In addition to her physical attributes and professional skills, she offers clients companionship and conversation, which she refers to as "the girlfriend experience." With a thriving business and a committed, live-in boyfriend, Chelsea believes she has achieved success and fulfillment—until a new client disrupts her carefully constructed world.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Steven SoderberghScored by Ross Godfrey

Box Office

2009 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$1.0M

Budget$1.7M
Worldwide gross$1.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $252K

Peak 30 theaters

Also known as

  • Girlfriend Experiencede
  • Girlfriend Experience - Aus dem Leben eines Luxus-Callgirlsde

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