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Safe

1995 119 min English R

“In the 21st century nobody will be… Safe.”

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Cast

45 people

Todd Haynes Director · Ed Tomney Composer

Worldwide gross $513K · Budget $1M · United States release June 23, 1995

Box office

Budget

$1,000,000

Worldwide gross

$512,558

Gross vs. budget

0.5×

Production

A

American Playhouse

Production

C

Chemical Films

Production

G

Good Machine

Production

K

Kardana Productions

Production

A

Arnold Semler Productions

Production

C

Channel Four Films

Production

S

Sony Pictures Classics

Studio · Production

K

Kardana Films

Production

K

Killer Films

Production

United Kingdom · United States

Produced in

Languages

Original language

English

Spoken on screen

English · Spanish

Release dates

United States · January 25, 1995

Premiere · Sundance Film Festival

United States · June 23, 1995

Limited theatrical

United States

June 30, 1995 · Theatrical

Australia

May 6, 2004 · Theatrical

Canada

August 26, 1995 · Premiere · Montreal world film festival

October 1, 1995 · Theatrical

Czechia

July 1, 1996 · Premiere · Karlovy Vary international film festival

France

May 23, 1995 · Premiere · Cannes Directors' Fortnight

April 17, 1996 · Theatrical

Germany

July 1, 1999 · TV

Greece

April 12, 1996 · Theatrical

Hungary

September 17, 1997 · Physical

Italy

September 1, 1995 · Premiere · Rimini festival

Japan

March 13, 1999 · Theatrical

Netherlands

January 1, 1996 · Premiere · International film festival Rotterdam

March 3, 2005 · Theatrical

June 21, 2005 · Physical · DVD

Portugal

July 26, 1996 · Theatrical

Spain

October 11, 1995 · Theatrical · Sitges film festival

Sweden

January 31, 2003 · Physical

United Kingdom

April 26, 1996 · Theatrical

December 21, 1997 · TV

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