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Released
2019 · FILM

Waves

A talented high‑school athlete fights to reclaim his future after a devastating injury while his controlling father’s relentless pressure threatens to tear their family apart, forcing them all to confront grief and find forgiveness.

“Love is patient.”

Directed by
Trey Edward Shults
Written by
Trey Edward Shults
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
136 min
DramaRomanceSport
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A controlling father's efforts to ensure his two children's success in high school backfire when his son suffers a career-ending sports injury. The family's relationships are later severely tested by an unexpected tragedy.

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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 Isaac HagyShot by Drew DanielsScored by Trent ReznorDesigned by Elliott Hostetter

Box Office

2019 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$2.6M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$2.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $167K

Peak 4 theaters

Also known as

  • Wavesde
  • Waves - Le onde della vitait

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ProductionA24

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