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Released
2019 · FILM

The Sun Is Also a Star

“Love is a universe all of its own”

Directed by
Ry Russo Young
Written by
Tracy Oliver, Nicola Yoon
Runtime
100 min
DramaMusicRomance

Synopsis

Two young people from New York City start to develop feelings for each other over the course of one day, as they face important decisions that could change the course of their lives. She is dealing with the possibility of her family being deported to Jamaica, while he is preparing for an education at Dartmouth.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Joe LandauerShot by Autumn Durald ArkapawScored by Herdis StefansdottirDesigned by Wynn Thomas

Box Office

2019 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$6.8M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$6.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $3.5M

Peak 2,073 theaters

Also known as

  • The Sun is also a Star: Ein einziger Tag für die Liebede
  • Mon étoile solairefr
  • Il sole è anche una stellait

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