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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls(1995)
Released
1995 · FILM

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

When a down‑on‑his‑luck private eye is sent from a Tibetan monastery to Africa to retrieve a sacred white bat before it sparks an all‑out tribal war, he must outwit rival hunters and his own chaotic instincts to prevent bloodshed and restore peace.

“New animals. New adventures. Same hair.”

Directed by
Steve Oedekerk, William M Elvin
Written by
Jack Bernstein, Steve Oedekerk
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
90 min
AdventureComedyCrime
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace embarks on a perilous journey into the African jungles to locate Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe, a task he must complete before the Wachati wedding.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 709+ credited

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 Malcolm CampbellShot by Donald E ThorinScored by Robert FolkDesigned by Stephen J LineweaverSound by Stacy BrownriggCostumes by Elsa ZamparelliStunts by Rick BarkerVFX by Michele Moen

Box Office

1995 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.1× 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

$212.4M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$212.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $108.4M — 51% of worldwide · International: $104.0M (49%)

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Also known as

  • Ace Ventura - Jetzt wird's wildde
  • Ace Ventura: When Nature Callsen
  • Ace Ventura en Afriquefr
  • Ace Ventura - Missione Africait

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