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Released
2008 · FILM

The Lazarus Project

Former criminal Ben Garvey awakens after a lethal injection to find himself hired as a groundskeeper at an eerie psychiatric hospital, and must unravel the mystery of his own survival before the institution’s dark secrets claim him for good.

Cheating death is only the beginning

Directed by
Runtime
99 min
DramaMysteryThriller

Synopsis

After Ben Garvey returns to crime and is sentenced to death by lethal injection, he awakens near an eerie psychiatric ward, where he is told he has been hired as the groundskeeper. As he grapples with the state of his soul and his deep love for his wife and daughter, Ben must determine whether he has truly evaded death or become entangled in something far more sinister.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Fred RaskinShot by Jerzy ZielinskiScored by Brian TylerDesigned by Jeremy Reed

Box Office

2008 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$558K

Budget$9.8M
Worldwide gross$558K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Das Lazarus Projektde
  • Das Lazarus-Projektde
  • The Lazarus Projectde
  • Proyecto Lazaruses
  • Lazarus Project - Un piano misteriosoit

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