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Released
1993 · FILM

The Good Son

A grieving ten‑year‑old sent to his aunt’s home must protect his family when his charming cousin’s increasingly violent impulses threaten everyone around them.

“Evil has many faces.”

Directed by
Joseph Ruben
Written by
Ian Mcewan
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
87 min
DramaThriller

Synopsis

A young boy lives with his aunt and uncle and forms a friendship with his cousin, who is the same age. However, the cousin begins to display growing signs of psychotic behavior.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 George BowersShot by John LindleyScored by Elmer BernsteinDesigned by Bill Groom

Box Office

1993 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.6× 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

$60.6M

Budget$17.0M
Worldwide gross$60.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $44.8M — 74% of worldwide · International: $15.8M (26%)

Opening weekend: $12.5M — 28% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $15.8M — 35% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,847 theaters

Also known as

  • Das zweite Gesichtde
  • Le Bon Filsfr
  • L'innocenza del diavoloit

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