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Released
1996 · FILM

Alaska

A missing father. A desperate search. An unforgettable adventure.

Directed by
Runtime
109 min
AdventureDramaFamily

Synopsis

Jake Barnes, along with his children Sean and Jessie, relocated to Alaska following the death of his wife. A former airline pilot, he now makes a living delivering toilet paper across the rugged mountainous terrain. During an emergency delivery in a storm, his plane crashes somewhere in the mountains. The authorities become involved, but Jake is frustrated by their response.

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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 Rob KobrinShot by Tony WestmanScored by Reg PowellDesigned by Douglas Higgins

Box Office

1996 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$11.8M

Budget$23.0M
Worldwide gross$11.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.9M 25% of its US run.

Peak 1,566 theaters

Also known as

  • Alaska - Die Spur des Polarbärende

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