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Released
2010 · FILM

Tiny Furniture

A recent film school graduate returns home to New York, determined to launch her career and find love, but must navigate the pull of family expectations and her own uncertainty before she can claim her future.

“Aura would like you to know that she is having a very, very hard time.”

Directed by
Lena Dunham
Written by
Lena Dunham
Runtime
99 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished high school. Aura feels directionless and uncertain about her next steps in both her career and personal life. She takes a job at a restaurant and attempts, without success, to form relationships with men, including Keith, a chef who also works there, and Jed, a popular internet personality.

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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 Lance EdmandsShot by Jody Lee LipesScored by Teddy Blanks

Box Office

2010 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.4× 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

$416K

Budget$65K
Worldwide gross$416K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $33K

Peak 1 theaters

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