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Released
2009 · FILM

To Save a Life

Some people are just dying to be heard.

Directed by
Runtime
120 min
Drama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Jake Taylor has everything: a beautiful girlfriend, success in basketball and beer pong, and widespread popularity. But when an old childhood friend commits suicide, Jake begins to question whether there was anything he could have done to prevent it. A youth minister suggests that Jake needs God, prompting him to embrace Christianity. However, as he navigates his new faith, his life begins to spiral out of control. Through this journey, Jake will come to understand what it truly means to be a Christian and learn how to save a life.

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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 Dan O BrienShot by C Clifford JonesScored by Tim WynnDesigned by Rachel Britts

Box Office

2009 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.6× 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

$3.8M

Budget$500K
Worldwide gross$3.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Salvar una vidaes
  • Une vie à sauverfr

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