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Released
2001 · FILM

The Glass House

Orphaned teens Ruby and Rhett move into their late parents' lavish Malibu home, only to discover that the seemingly benevolent family friends who take them in harbor deadly secrets they must expose before becoming their next victims.

The glass is about to be shattered...

Directed by
Written by
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
107 min
CrimeDramaMystery

Synopsis

When Ruby and Rhett's parents die in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly disrupted. Moving to an impressive house in Malibu with the Glasses, old family friends, marks the start of a new chapter for them.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Howard E SmithShot by Alar KiviloScored by Christopher YoungDesigned by Jon Gary Steele

Box Office

2001 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$23.6M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$23.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $18.2M 77% of worldwide · International: $5.5M (23%)

Opening weekend: $5.7M 32% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.3M40% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,591 theaters

Also known as

  • Das Glashausde
  • La Prison de verrefr
  • Prigione di vetroit

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