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Released
2012 · FILM

The Lucky One

Haunted veteran Logan Thibault abandons his life in Colorado to track down the mysterious woman in a wartime photograph—believing she’s his “guardian angel”—and must confront his PTSD‑riddled past while racing against unseen forces that will keep him from finding redemption or losing himself forever.

Directed by
Scott Hicks
Written by
Will Fetters, Nicholas Sparks
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
101 min
DramaMysteryRomance
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A Marine, having completed three tours of duty in Iraq, travels to Louisiana in search of the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 28

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 Scott GrayShot by Alar KiviloScored by Mark IshamDesigned by Barbara Ling

Box Office

2012 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 4.0× 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

$99.4M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$99.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $60.5M — 61% of worldwide · International: $38.9M (39%)

Opening weekend: $22.5M — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $28.6M — 47% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,155 theaters

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Also known as

  • The Lucky One - Für immer der Deinede
  • Cuando te encuentrees
  • Ho cercato il tuo nomeit

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