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Released
1980 · FILM

9 to 5

Three overworked office workers team up to sabotage their tyrannical, sexist boss and seize control of the company before he crushes their careers forever.

Getting even is a full-time job.

Directed by
Runtime
110 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Pembroke J HerringShot by Reynaldo VillalobosScored by Charles FoxDesigned by Dean Edward Mitzner

Box Office

1980 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 10× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$103.3M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$103.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.0M 4% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 910 theaters

Also known as

  • Warum eigentlich... bringen wir den Chef nicht um?de
  • 9 to 5en
  • Cómo eliminar a su jefees
  • Comment se débarrasser de son patronfr
  • Dalle 9 alle 5... orario continuatoit

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