Brian and Charles
“Some friendships are built to last.”
An endearing outlier, Brian lives alone in a Welsh valley, inventing oddball contraptions that seldom work. After finding a discarded mannequin head, Brian gets an idea. Three days, a washing machine, and sundry spare parts later, he’s invented Charles, an artificially intelligent robot who learns English from a dictionary and proves a charming, cheeky companion. Before long, however, Charles also develops autonomy. Intrigued by the wider world — or whatever lies beyond the cottage where Brian has hidden him away — Charles craves adventure.
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
Studio
Bankside Films
Language
en
Status
Released
How Brian and Charles performed
Budget
$1.2M
Worldwide Gross
$216,220
Gross Profit
−$983,780
Return
0.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$31K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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