Synopsis
Torn between his desire to become a powerful man and his duty to uphold his culture’s values, Rapayet enters the drug trafficking business in the 1970s and finds quick success despite his tribe’s matriarch Ursula’s disapproval. Ignoring ancient omens, Rapayet and his family get caught up in a conflict where honor is the highest currency and debts are paid with blood. A sprawling epic about the erosion of tradition in pursuit of material wealth, Birds of Passage is a visually striking exploration of loyalty, greed, and the voracious nature of change.
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Movie Details
| Australia Releases: |
October 4th, 2019 (Wide), released as Birds Of Passage |
| Video Release: |
May 7th, 2019 by Passion River |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Running Time: |
125 minutes |
| Keywords: |
1970s, Set in Columbia, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, Indigenous People |
| Source: | Based on Real Life Events |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Dramatization |
| Production/Financing Companies: |
The Orchard, Ciudad Lunar, Blond Indian, Pimienta Films, Snowglobe, Films Boutique, Bord Cadre |
| Production Countries: |
Colombia, Denmark |
| Languages: |
Spanish |
December 16th, 2019
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The first two installments of our Holiday Gift Guide had plenty of first-run releases and several TV on DVD releases. This installment includes limited releases and foreign imports. The list of classics isn’t up to the usual standards for the same reasons the TV on DVD list was rather short. Streaming is taking over that part of the market. Did you know The Criterion Collection has their own streaming service? So does Magnolia Pictures. On the one hand, that’s a lot of amazing movies for one price. On the other hand, as a fan of physical media, I’m not happy streaming is becoming so popular. There are still some great smaller titles worthy of the season.
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May 15th, 2019
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It’s another weak week on the home market. The biggest release of the week is Fighting With My Family, which is also one of the best. The other contenders for Pick of the Week are a documentary, Apollo 11; a classic collection, The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 1; and a foreign-language import, Princess Mononoke. They are all worth owning, but they all have issues as well. The last two releases are double-dips, while the first two don’t have a ton of extras. In the end, I went with Fighting With My Family as the Pick of the Week, because it has the best combination of movie quality and extras without being a double-dip.
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February 20th, 2019
Not only did we set a new yearly high market for theater average this past weekend, but two of the top three results from 2019 were from this weekend. Fighting With My Family led the way with an average of $34,695 in four theaters over the three-day weekend. The film earned just under $200,000 during its five-day debut, which is great news for its wide expansion this weekend. The re-release of War and Peace managed $22,976 in its one theater. That’s amazing, because the film is six hours long and they could only fit in 2 screenings a day. Then again, the movie is six hours long, they probably charged double to see it. Birds of Paradise was next with an average of $11,541 in two theaters. This is more impressive than it looks at first, because the film debuted on Wednesday, which undoubtedly tempered some of its weekend box office. The final film in the $10,000 club was CatVideoFest with $11,269. At first I was confused by this result, but then I found out it is a charity event, so good job everyone involved.
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February 15th, 2019
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There are several films on this week’s list that are earning overwhelmingly positive reviews, including Fighting With My Family, which expands wide next week. How wide could depend on how well it does over the weekend.
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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 |
|---|
| 2019/10/04 |
25 |
$39,296 |
|
18 |
$2,183 |
$47,785 |
1 |
| 2019/10/11 |
- |
$28,866 |
-27% |
18 |
$1,604 |
$99,997 |
2 |
| 2019/10/18 |
27 |
$16,055 |
-44% |
19 |
$845 |
$128,322 |
3 |
| 2019/10/25 |
- |
$9,995 |
-38% |
18 |
$555 |
$144,912 |
4 |
| 2019/11/01 |
- |
$4,185 |
-58% |
12 |
$349 |
$155,608 |
5 |
| 2019/11/08 |
- |
$2,528 |
-40% |
11 |
$230 |
$159,065 |
6 |
| 2019/12/06 |
- |
$1,041 |
|
3 |
$347 |
$165,192 |
10 |
| 2020/02/21 |
- |
$820 |
|
1 |
$820 |
$161,879 |
21 |
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