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Released
2006 · FILM

The Night Listener

A tormented radio host desperate to salvage his career and personal life becomes obsessed with a mysterious young caller, only to discover that the boy’s true identity may unravel his sanity and destroy everything he holds dear.

“You never know who's listening.”

Directed by
Patrick Stettner
Written by
Armistead Maupin, Terry Anderson
Runtime
91 min
CrimeDramaHorror

Synopsis

A radio show host, dealing with the breakdown of his relationship, starts communicating with his most devoted fan—a young boy—through phone calls. However, as questions arise about the boy's identity, the host's life becomes increasingly destabilized.

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Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Andy KeirShot by Lisa RinzlerScored by Peter NashelDesigned by Michael Shaw

Box Office

2006 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.7× 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

$10.6M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$10.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $4.9M

Peak 1,367 theaters

Also known as

  • The Night Listener – Der nächtliche Lauscherde
  • Una voce nella notteit

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