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Released
2002 · FILM

The Salton Sea

A grieving widower desperate for redemption dives into a treacherous underworld of crime and deception, where every ally may be an enemy and his quest to clear his name could cost him everything.

“If you're looking for the truth, you've come to the wrong place.”

Directed by
D J Caruso
Written by
Tony Gayton
Runtime
103 min
CrimeDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A man seeking redemption after the murder of his beloved wife finds himself adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. During his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn," becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit filled with unexpected twists and turns.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

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 Jim PageShot by Amir MokriScored by Thomas NewmanDesigned by Tom Southwell

Box Office

2002 · 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

$1.1M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$1.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $232K

Peak 15 theaters

Also known as

  • Salton Sea - Incubi e menzogneit

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