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Released
1997 · FILM

Turbulence

A flight attendant must take command of a commercial jet after a violent convict breaks free during a secret transport, turning the flight into a deadly game of survival.

If you weren't afraid of flying before, you will be now.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
100 min
ActionThriller

Synopsis

During a flight carrying dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver escapes and incites chaos onboard. As Weaver kills several passengers and crew, flight attendant Teri Halloran takes charge of preventing the plane from crashing, aided by an air traffic controller on the ground. While Halloran attempts to maintain control of the aircraft, Weaver continues to attack the remaining crew members.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 DuffyShot by Lloyd Ahern IiScored by Shirley WalkerDesigned by Mayling Cheng

Box Office

1997 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$11.5M

Budget$55.0M
Worldwide gross$11.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Turbulencede
  • Turbulenceen
  • Turbulenciaes

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