Synopsis

When seriously ill teenager Milla falls madly in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it’s her parents’ worst nightmare. But as Milla’s first brush with love brings her a new lust for life, things get messy and traditional morals go out the window. Milla soon shows everyone in her orbit—her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest, pregnant neighbour —how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life.

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Movie Details

Australia Releases:	July 23rd, 2020 (Wide)
Video Release:	June 19th, 2020 by IFC Video
Running Time:	117 minutes
Keywords:	Comedy Drama
Source:	Based on Fiction Book/Short Story
Genre:	Drama
Production Method:	Live Action
Creative Type:	Contemporary Fiction
Production/Financing Companies:	Waking Dream Productions, Screen Australia Enterprise Program, Jan Chapman Films, Whitefalk Films, Weiranderson.com, Spectrum Films, Fulcrum Media Finance, Media Super, Create NSW, Aurora Intensive Development for Australian Scripts, Screen Australia
Production Countries:	Australia
Languages:	English

Weekend Wrap-Up: Dinosaurs Dominate the Box Office

June 23rd, 2020

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Limited and Virtual Releases: Sink Your Teeth into These Limited Releases

June 18th, 2020

It is not a particularly strong week for limited releases with only one film, Babyteeth, earning any pre-release buzz. However, it is the wrong genre to thrive during the pandemic and I fear it will have to wait until the home market to find an audience, and possibly not even then. More...

Babyteeth Trailer

June 1st, 2020

Comedy drama starring Eliza Scanlen opens in theaters June 19 ... Full Movie Details.

When seriously ill teenager Milla falls madly in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it’s her parents’ worst nightmare. But as Milla’s first brush with love brings her a new lust for life, things get messy and traditional morals go out the window. Milla soon shows everyone in her orbit—her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest, pregnant neighbour —how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. More...

2020 Preview: June

June 1st, 2020

It’s June and Soul was one of several potential monster hits that were supposed to come out this month, but that’s not happening, of course. Furthermore, I’m not convinced there will be any major releases in July either, despite what some studios are planning. There are some positive signs in some parts of the world. For example, South Korea is expecting to have a number of major local releases in the coming month. Closer to home, the NHL is planning on reopening in July, albeit playing in hub cities in empty arenas, but at least that’s something to look forward to. Granted, you can play a sport like hockey in an empty arena, but you can’t show a movie in an empty theater. Or, to be more accurate, it is not profitable to show a movie in an empty theater. (I think we’ve all had that experience of going to the movies and being one of only five or six people in the theater.) So, what are the prospects? More...

Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.

Weekend Box Office Performance

Date	Rank	Gross	% Change	Screens	Per Screen	Total Gross	Week
2020/07/24	8	$46,304		46	$1,007	$46,304	1
2020/07/31	-	$26,440	-43%	46	$575	$91,738	2
2020/08/07	12	$24,951	-6%	45	$554	$127,599	3
2020/08/14	17	$16,036	-36%	37	$433	$153,499	4
2020/08/21	13	$15,905	-1%	36	$442	$174,627	5
2020/08/28	9	$22,205	+40%	36	$617	$208,086	6
2020/09/04	12	$9,653	-57%	22	$439	$215,857	7
2020/09/11	18	$8,189	-15%	15	$546	$229,647	8
2020/09/18	-	$8,126	-1%	13	$625	$241,741	9
2020/09/25	22	$6,174	-24%	10	$617	$241,040	10
2020/10/09	-	$3,072		6	$512	$259,020	12
2020/10/16	-	$738	-76%	2	$369	$256,101	13
2020/10/23	-	$505	-32%	1	$505	$258,104	14
2020/10/30	-	$1,553	+208%	3	$518	$257,549	15
2020/11/06	-	$202	-87%	1	$202	$266,635	16
2020/11/13	-	$6,488	+3,112%	11	$590	$278,100	17
2020/11/20	-	$5,438	-16%	8	$680	$289,462	18
2020/11/27	-	$5,440	n/c	4	$1,360	$305,095	19
2020/12/04	-	$6,642	+22%	6	$1,107	$315,626	20
2020/12/18	-	$5,842		7	$835	$348,265	22
2020/12/25	-	$3,139	-46%	7	$448	$350,136	23
2021/01/01	-	$5,442	+73%	5	$1,088	$366,442	24
2021/01/08	-	$3,233	-41%	5	$647	$373,951	25
2021/01/15	-	$5,057	+56%	6	$843	$380,945	26
2021/01/22	-	$3,572	-29%	4	$893	$387,821	27
2021/01/29	-	$4,040	+13%	4	$1,010	$392,658	28
2021/02/05	-	$2,842	-30%	3	$947	$397,849	29
2021/02/12	-	$385	-86%	2	$193	$403,031	30
2021/02/19	-	$739	+92%	2	$370	$409,877	31
2021/02/26	-	$598	-19%	1	$598	$402,994	32
2021/03/05	-	$497	-17%	1	$497	$401,105	33
2021/03/12	-	$214	-57%	1	$214	$407,177	34
2021/03/19	-	$613	+186%	2	$307	$406,188	35
2021/03/26	-	$47	-92%	1	$47	$399,838	36
2021/04/02	-	$22	-53%	1	$22	$398,704	37
2021/08/13	-	$133		1	$133	$388,444	56

Box Office Summary Per Territory

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Territory	Release Date	Opening Weekend	Opening Weekend Screens	Maximum Screens	Theatrical Engagements	Total Box Office	Report Date
Australia	7/23/2020	$46,304	46	46	408	$388,444	8/21/2021
Czech Republic	7/17/2020	$18,955	91	91	149	$51,378	10/19/2022
France	7/28/2021	$83,515	69	69	69	$83,515	8/11/2021
Germany	10/8/2020			0	0	$0
Italy	5/13/2021	$5,790	0	0	0	$5,790	10/20/2022
Lithuania	8/7/2020	$0	0	4	4	$11,412	8/19/2020
Netherlands	8/28/2020	$52,685	42	44	237	$266,446	10/19/2022
New Zealand	10/29/2020	$4,557	23	24	97	$25,409	10/19/2022
North America	6/19/2020	$2,487	12	12	12	$4,507
Poland	8/7/2020	$22,540	144	144	288	$54,447	10/19/2022
Romania	9/25/2020	$7,140	34	35	117	$13,496	3/24/2021
Russia (CIS)	8/13/2020	$3,031	36	36	81	$9,860	10/19/2022
Slovakia	9/18/2020	$497	5	6	11	$2,313	9/29/2020
South Korea	10/22/2020	$8,211	57	57	91	$31,197	11/11/2020
Spain	8/21/2020	$4,462	33	33	59	$10,635	9/3/2020
United Kingdom	8/21/2020	$51,091	139	153	373	$197,505	9/2/2020

Worldwide Total						$1,156,354	10/20/2022

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Leading Cast

Eliza Scanlen

Milla Finlay

Supporting Cast

Toby Wallace		Moses
Emily Barclay		Toby
Eugene Gilfedder		Gidon
Essie Davis		Anna Finlay
Ben Mendelsohn		Henry Finlay

For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.

Production and Technical Credits

Shannon Murphy		Director
Rita Kalnejais		Screenwriter
Alex White		Producer
Jan Chapman		Executive Producer
Andrew Commis		Director of Photography
Steve Evans		Editor
Sherree Philips		Production Designer
Amelia Gebler		Costume Designer
Amanda Brown		Composer
Angus Robertson		Supervising Sound Editor
Vanessa Brown		Line Producer
John Magee		First Assistant Director
Kirsty McGregor		Casting Director
Stevie Ray		Casting Director

Australia Box Office for Babyteeth (2020)