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Released
1994 · FILM

Thumbelina

Tiny orphan Thumbelina sets out to escape a series of bizarre captors and find a world where she can belong, racing against time before she’s forced into an unwanted marriage.

“Follow your heart and nothing is impossible.”

Directed by
Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Written by
Don Bluth, Hans Christian Andersen
Runtime
87 min
AdventureAnimationFamily

Synopsis

is too small to ever find a husband. To help her, her father, a kindhearted farmer, releases her into the world with a chrysalis to keep her safe. As Thumbelina journeys through the forest, she encounters a variety of creatures, each offering her a different kind of help and trouble. She is kidnapped by a frog who wants her to be the bride of her son, but Thumbelina escapes with the help of a friendly fish. Later, she meets a swallow who promises to take her to the land of the flowers, where she can find a husband her own size. With the swallow's help, Thumbelina finally finds happiness and a home.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 33

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 Fiona TraylerScored by Barry ManilowDesigned by Rowland B Wilson

Box Office

1994 · 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

$11.4M

Budget$28.0M
Worldwide gross$11.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.3M — 20% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $3.1M — 28% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,502 theaters

Also known as

  • Däumelinede
  • Pulgarcitaes
  • Poucelinafr

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