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Released
2008 · FILM

Wendy and Lucy

A destitute drifter races against time and an indifferent system to locate her beloved missing dog, risking everything she has left in a desperate quest for companionship and survival.

“On the long road, friendship is everything.”

Directed by
Kelly Reichardt
Written by
Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt
Runtime
80 min
Drama
Streaming on
  • MUBI

Synopsis

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

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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 Kelly ReichardtShot by Sam LevyDesigned by Ryan Warren Smith

Box Office

2008 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.0× 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

$1.2M

Budget$200K
Worldwide gross$1.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $7K

Peak 2 theaters

Also known as

  • Wendy y Lucyes
  • Wendy et Lucyfr

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