Synopsis
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, N.Y., is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece, but the textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden’s own deteriorating reality.
Metrics
| Opening Weekend: | $172,194 (5.6% of total gross) |
| Legs: | 9.29 (domestic box office/biggest weekend) |
| Domestic Share: | 70.3% (domestic box office/worldwide) |
| Production Budget: | $20,000,000 (worldwide box office is 0.2 times production budget) |
| Theater counts: | 9 opening theaters/119 max. theaters, 7.8 weeks average run per theater |
| Infl. Adj. Dom. BO | $4,831,824 |
Latest Ranking on Cumulative Box Office Lists
| Record | Rank | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 7,501-7,600) | 7,544 | $3,083,538 |
| All Time International Box Office (Rank 10,801-10,900) | 10,832 | $1,300,000 |
| All Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 10,801-10,900) | 10,888 | $4,383,538 |
| All Time Domestic Highest Grossing Limited Release Movies (Rank 801-900) | 814 | $3,083,538 |
| All Time Domestic Box Office for R Movies (Rank 2,801-2,900) | 2,888 | $3,083,538 |
| All Time International Box Office for R Movies (Rank 2,301-2,400) | 2,395 | $1,300,000 |
| All Time Worldwide Box Office for R Movies (Rank 3,101-3,200) | 3,199 | $4,383,538 |
See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records.
Movie Details
| Domestic Releases: | October 24th, 2008 (Limited) by Sony Pictures Classics |
| Video Release: | March 10th, 2009 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| MPAA Rating: | R for language and some sexual content/nudity |
| Running Time: | 124 minutes |
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| Keywords: | Life Drama, Relationships Gone Wrong, Theater, Artists, Infidelity, Romance, Surrealism / Absurdism, Cult Movie |
| Source: | Original Screenplay |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Contemporary Fiction |
| Production/Financing Companies: | Sony Pictures Classics, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, A Likely Story, Projective Testing Service, Russia Inc |
| Production Countries: | United States |
| Languages: | English |
Ranking on other Records and Milestones
| Record | Rank | Amount | Chart Date | Days In Release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top 2008 Theater Average | 40 | $19,133 | Oct 24, 2008 | 3 |