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Released
1998 · FILM

Almost Heroes

Two bumbling explorers set out in 1804 to beat Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Ocean, but their ill-prepared journey through the untamed wilderness becomes a chaotic quest for survival and glory.

“Almost History... Almost Legends... Mostly Ridiculous.”

Directed by
Christopher Guest
Written by
Mark Nutter, Thomas R Wolfe
Runtime
90 min
AdventureComedyWestern

Synopsis

In 1804, two ill-fated explorers embarked on a doomed expedition through the Pacific Northwest in a desperate attempt to reach the Pacific Ocean before the Lewis and Clark expedition.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

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 Ronald RooseShot by Adam John KimmelScored by Cj VanstonDesigned by Joseph T Garrity

Box Office

1998 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$6.1M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$6.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.8M — 46% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.0M — 65% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,048 theaters

Also known as

  • Fast Heldende
  • Fast Helden - Zwei Trottel erobern Amerikade
  • Les Premiers Colonsfr

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