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Released
1999 · FILM

Tumbleweeds

They ran away from everything but each other.

Directed by
Runtime
102 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

When relationship problems arise, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter Ava relocate to a new city; this pattern has become tiresome for Ava. For their move to San Diego, they receive assistance from trucker Jack Ranson. After settling in, Ava obtains a leading role in the school play, while Jack begins dating Mary Jo but later displays controlling and aggressive behavior. Mary Jo decides to leave again, which angers Ava.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 John GilroyShot by Dan StoloffScored by David MansfieldDesigned by Bryce Holtshousen

Box Office

1999 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.5× 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$312K
Worldwide gross$1.4M
break-even (2.5×)

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