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Released
2008 · FILM

Wild Child

Spoiled teen heiress Poppy is dumped at a strict English boarding school, where she must shed her selfish ways and win over a rigid headmistress and hostile classmates or risk being sent home forever.

New Girl. New School. New Rules.

Directed by
Written by
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
98 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, along with a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, her exasperated father sends her to a boarding school in England. There, Poppy faces challenges in the form of a stern headmistress and a class of girls who refuse to tolerate her selfish behavior.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 38

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 Simon CozensShot by Chris SeagerScored by Michael PriceDesigned by Eve Stewart

Box Office

2008 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× 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

$22.0M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$22.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $22.0M 100% of worldwide · International: $28K (0%)

Also known as

  • Wild Childde
  • Wild Child - Erstklassig zickigde

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