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The Hurt Locker(2008)
Released
2008 · FILM

The Hurt Locker

A gritty U.S. Army EOD squad in war‑torn Iraq races against cunning insurgents who rig explosives to detonate remotely, forcing a newly appointed sergeant to confront deadly bomb threats and internal conflict while fighting to keep his team alive.

“You don't have to be a hero to do this job. But it helps.”

Directed by
Kathryn Bigelow
Written by
Mark Boal
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
131 min
DramaThrillerWar
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

During the Iraq War, a sergeant newly assigned to an army bomb squad finds himself in conflict with his fellow squad members because of his unconventional approach to his duties.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 45+ 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 Chris InnisShot by Barry AckroydScored by Marco BeltramiDesigned by Karl Juliusson

Box Office

2008 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.3× 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

$49.3M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$49.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $17.0M — 35% of worldwide · International: $32.2M (65%)

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Also known as

  • Hurt Lockerde
  • Tödliches Kommando – The Hurt Lockerde
  • Tödliches Kommando: The Hurt Lockerde
  • En tierra hostiles
  • Démineursfr

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