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The Lobster(2015)
Released
2015 · FILM

The Lobster

A heartbroken man checks into a surreal hotel where singles have 45 days to pair up or be transformed into their chosen animal, forcing him to race against time and absurd rituals to find love before he becomes a lobster.

“An unconventional love story...”

Directed by
Yorgos Lanthimos, Niamh Blanche
Written by
Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
119 min
DramaRomanceSci-Fi

Synopsis

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 227+ 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 Yorgos MavropsaridisShot by Thimios BakatakisDesigned by Jacqueline AbrahamsSound by Johnnie BurnCostumes by Sarah BlenkinsopStunts by Giedrius NagysVFX by Olivier Cauwet

Box Office

2015 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.9× 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

$15.7M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$15.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

2016560 theaters
$14.4M($19.9M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • The Lobster - Eine unkonventionelle Liebesgeschichtede
  • The Lobster - Hummer sind auch nur Menschende
  • (Bulgarian)Омарът
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • FranceMay 15, 2015
  • CzechiaJul 3, 2015
  • IsraelJul 10, 2015
  • UkraineJul 11, 2015
  • New ZealandJul 16, 2015

Companies

ProductionA24, Film4, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, Eurimages

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