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Released
1985 · FILM

The Quiet Earth

A brilliant researcher awakens to discover humanity has vanished after a secret experiment goes catastrophically wrong, and he must uncover the truth behind the disaster before his isolation drives him mad.

“The End of the World is Just the Beginning”

Directed by
Geoff Murphy
Written by
Craig Harrison, Bill Baer
Runtime
91 min
DramaMysterySci-Fi

Synopsis

When a classified scientific experiment goes awry, a lone scientist may find himself the last surviving human on Earth.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

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 Michael HortonShot by James BartleScored by John CharlesDesigned by Josephine Ford

Box Office

1985 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.1× 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

$2.1M

Budget$1.0M
Worldwide gross$2.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $16K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $16K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1 theaters

Also known as

  • Quiet Earth - Das letzte Experimentde
  • El único supervivientees
  • Le Dernier Survivantfr
  • La terra silenziosait

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