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Medicine For Melancholy

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2008

88 minutes (1 hrs 28 mins)

Production Country

United States

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Directed by

Starring

Wyatt Cenac · Tracey Heggins · John Thurgood · Brent Weinbach · Viktor Mikshansky · Emily Taplin

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US box office

Box Office debut: 30th Jan '09
Debut position: 59
Highest position: 59
Debut gross: $12.6 Thousand
Total chart weeks: 8

Chart position history

UK box office

US box office

Global box office

Certificates

13

Total grosses

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$99.2 Thousand

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