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Released
1993 · FILM

The Joy Luck Club

Four Chinese‑American daughters confront the secret histories of their immigrant mothers, battling cultural divides and generational wounds to forge their own identities.

“Between every mother and daughter there is a story that must be told.”

Directed by
Wayne Wang
Written by
Amy Tan, Ron Bass
Runtime
139 min
Drama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers, who were born in feudal China, explore their pasts.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Maysie HoyShot by Amir MokriScored by Rachel PortmanDesigned by Donald Graham Burt

Box Office

1993 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.0× 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

$32.9M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$32.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Töchter des Himmelsde
  • Le Club de la chancefr
  • Il circolo della fortuna e della felicitàit

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