Paradise: Hope

The final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('Paradise: Love') and her aunt does missionary work ('Paradise: Faith'), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.

Grosses

Domestic (1.5%)
$6,701
Summary Details
DistributorStrand Releasing
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Opening$2,664
1 theaters
Release DateDec 6, 2013 - Jan 9, 2014
Running Time1 hr 32 min
GenresDrama
In Release391 days/55 weeks
Widest Release3 theaters
DateRankWeekly %± LW TheatersChange AvgTo DateWeek
Dec 6-1284$3,468-1-$3,468$3,4681
Dec 13-1990$1,633-52.9%3+2$544$5,1012
Jan 3-978$1,600-3-$533$6,7015