Name: The Thin Red Line
Director: Terrence Malick
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1998
Cast: Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, Ben Chaplin

Date	Rank	Gross	Daily Chg	Weekly Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Days
Fri Jan 15	#3	$2.72M		—	$6.22M	1,528	$1.8K	24
Sat Jan 16	#4	$3.98M	+46%	—	$10.20M	1,528	$2.6K	25
Sun Jan 17	#3	$2.64M	-34%	—	$12.84M	1,528	$1.7K	26
Mon Jan 18	#4	$1.60M	-40%	—	$14.44M	1,528	$1.0K	27
Tue Jan 19	#2	$766K	-52%	—	$15.20M	1,528	$502	28
Wed Jan 20	#2	$664K	-13%	—	$15.87M	1,528	$435	29
Thu Jan 21	#2	$653K	-2%	—	$16.52M	1,528	$427	30
Fri Jan 22	#5	$1.47M	+125%	-46%	$17.99M	1,538	$956	31
Sat Jan 23	#4	$2.70M	+84%	-32%	$20.69M	1,538	$1.8K	32
Sun Jan 24	#4	$1.62M	-40%	-39%	$22.31M	1,538	$1.1K	33
Mon Jan 25	#3	$425K	-74%	-73%	$22.74M	1,538	$276	34
Tue Jan 26	#4	$461K	+9%	-40%	$23.20M	1,538	$300	35
Wed Jan 27	#4	$390K	-15%	-41%	$23.59M	1,538	$254	36
Thu Jan 28	#5	$383K	-2%	-41%	$23.97M	1,538	$249	37
Fri Jan 29	#7	$1.01M	+164%	-31%	$24.98M	1,657	$610	38
Sat Jan 30	#7	$1.75M	+73%	-35%	$26.73M	1,657	$1.1K	39
Sun Jan 31	#8	$527K	-70%	-67%	$27.27M	1,657	$318	40
Mon Feb 1	#4	$302K	-43%	-29%	$27.57M	1,657	$182	41
Tue Feb 2	#6	$353K	+17%	-23%	$27.93M	1,657	$213	42
Wed Feb 3	#6	$299K	-15%	-23%	$28.23M	1,657	$180	43
Thu Feb 4	#6	$287K	-4%	-25%	$28.51M	1,657	$173	44
Mon Feb 8	#10	$139K		-54%	$30.57M	1,646	$85	48
Tue Feb 9	#7	$202K	+45%	-43%	$30.77M	1,646	$123	49
Wed Feb 10	#6	$204K	+1%	-32%	$30.97M	1,646	$124	50
Thu Feb 11	#7	$194K	-5%	-33%	$31.17M	1,646	$118	51
Fri Feb 12	#11	$345K	+78%	—	$31.51M	1,306	$264	52
Sat Feb 13	#11	$665K	+93%	—	$32.17M	1,306	$509	53
Sun Feb 14	#11	$540K	-19%	—	$32.72M	1,306	$413	54
Mon Feb 15	#14	$257K	-52%	+84%	$33.03M	1,306	$197	55
Tue Feb 16	#12	$149K	-42%	-26%	$33.18M	1,306	$114	56
Wed Feb 17	#13	$126K	-16%	-38%	$33.31M	1,301	$97	57
Thu Feb 18	#12	$130K	+3%	-33%	$33.44M	1,301	$100	58
Fri Feb 19	#16	$215K	+66%	-38%	$33.65M	900	$239	59
Sat Feb 20	#16	$420K	+95%	-37%	$34.07M	900	$467	60
Sun Feb 21	#17	$266K	-37%	-51%	$34.37M	905	$294	61
Mon Feb 22	#15	$85K	-68%	-67%	$34.46M	905	$94	62
Thu Feb 25	#13	$97K		-25%	$34.73M	905	$107	65
Tue Mar 2	#20	$47K		—	$35.21M	436	$108	70

Weekend	Rank	Gross	Chg	Total	Theaters	Average	Wks
Dec 25-27	19	$283K	—	$369K	5	$56.5K	1
Jan 1-3	23	$376K	+33.0%	$1.02M	7	$53.7K	2
Jan 8-10	15	$1.28M	+239.8%	$2.49M	61	$20.9K	3
Jan 15-17	3	$9.77M	+665.1%	$12.84M	1,528	$6.4K	4
Jan 22-24	4	$5.79M	-40.7%	$22.31M	1,538	$3.8K	5
Jan 29-31	7	$3.30M	-43.0%	$27.27M	1,657	$2.0K	6
Feb 5-7	12	$1.91M	-42.1%	$30.43M	1,646	$1.2K	7
Feb 12-15 Presidents' Day	12	$1.87M	-2.4%	$33.03M	1,301	$1.4K	8
Feb 19-21	17	$932K	-50.1%	$34.37M	905	$1.0K	9
Feb 26-28	27	$393K	-57.8%	$35.13M	436	$901	10
Mar 5-7	33	$227K	-42.3%	$35.51M	303	$748	11
Mar 12-14	41	$139K	-38.7%	$35.75M	176	$789	12
Mar 19-21	45	$113K	-18.5%	$35.95M	129	$878	13
Mar 26-28	50	$65K	-42.2%	$36.07M	96	$681	14
Apr 2-4	55	$58K	-11.3%	$36.16M	132	$439	15
Apr 9-11	52	$64K	+10.7%	$36.26M	139	$462	16

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

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Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byTerrence Malick

ScreenplayTerrence Malick

Produced byRobert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau, Grant Hill

CinematographyJohn Toll

Music byHans Zimmer

StarringJim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, Ben Chaplin, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Adrien Brody

Studio20th Century Fox

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