Nightmare Alley
“Man or beast.”
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
Genres
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Studio
Searchlight Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Nightmare Alley performed
Budget
$60.0M
Worldwide Gross
$39.6M
Gross Profit
−$20.4M
Return
0.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$7M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Crime) 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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Cast
Stanton Carlisle
Bradley Cooper
Stanton Carlisle
Dr. Lilith Ritter
Cate Blanchett
Dr. Lilith Ritter
Zeena the Seer
Toni Collette
Zeena the Seer
Clem Hoatley
Willem Dafoe
Clem Hoatley
Ezra Grindle
Richard Jenkins
Ezra Grindle
Molly Cahill
Rooney Mara
Molly Cahill
Bruno
Ron Perlman
Bruno
Mrs. Kimball
Mary Steenburgen
Mrs. Kimball
Pete
David Strathairn
Pete
The Major
Mark Povinelli
The Major
Judge Kimball
Peter MacNeill
Judge Kimball
Anderson
Holt McCallany
Anderson
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