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Released
1995 · FILM

The Tie That Binds

Janie's been adopted by the perfect couple. With their help she can find a new life. If her real parents don't find her first.

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Runtime
99 min
CrimeDramaThriller

Synopsis

A young couple adopts a traumatized child, unaware that her parents are fugitives and murderers who will do anything to get her back.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 N KnueShot by Bobby BukowskiScored by Graeme RevellDesigned by Marcia Hinds

Box Office

1995 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$5.8M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$5.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $5.8M 99% of worldwide · International: $58K (1%)

Opening weekend: $2.6M 45% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.4M59% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,783 theaters

Also known as

  • Blood Linede
  • Los lazos que unenes
  • Les Liens du sangfr
  • Legame mortaleit

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