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Released
2011 · FILM

Tomboy

A ten‑year‑old girl who loves football masquerades as a boy named Mickaël after moving to a new neighborhood, and must navigate friendship, first love, and mounting suspicion before the summer ends.

“There's a new kid in town.”

Directed by
Celine Sciamma
Written by
Celine Sciamma
Runtime
82 min
Language
FR
Drama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Laure, a ten-year-old girl, differs from most of her peers in that she prefers football over dolls and sweaters over dresses. When Laure and her family relocate to a new neighborhood, Lisa, a local girl, mistakes her for a boy. Embracing this intriguing new identity, Laure adopts the name Mickaël, beginning a summer filled with sunny afternoons, playground games, and first kisses. However, as the school term approaches and suspicions grow among her friends and family, Laure must confront an uncertain future.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

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 Julien LacherayShot by Crystel FournierScored by Jean Baptiste De LaubierDesigned by Thomas Grezaud

Box Office

2011 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× 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

$1.4M

Budget$1.0M
Worldwide gross$1.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $2K

Peak 1 theaters

Also known as

  • Tomboy - Junge, was für ein Mädchende

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