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Released
1990 · FILM

Almost an Angel

Who does he think he is?

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
95 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

Terry Dean is an electronics specialist who also engages in theft. After being released from prison, he is struck by a car while rescuing a young girl. While hospitalized, he experiences a dream in which God appears and informs him that he is an Angel tasked with performing good deeds to atone for his previous life. Initially skeptical, he eventually becomes convinced of his angelic role. Lacking any supernatural abilities, he relies on his personal experience and skills to bring about positive outcomes.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

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 David StivenShot by Russell BoydScored by Maurice JarreDesigned by Henry Bumstead

Box Office

1990 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$6.9M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$6.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.7M 39% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.7M39% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,373 theaters

Also known as

  • Beinahe ein Engelde
  • Casi un ángeles
  • Un ange... ou presquefr
  • Un angelo da quattro soldiit

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