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Released
1993 · FILM

Beethoven's 2nd

When mischievous St. Bernard Beethoven discovers his new litter is about to be sold, he teams up with the Newton kids to outwit a greedy owner and protect his growing canine family.

The Newton Family is going to the dogs...

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Runtime
89 min
ComedyFamilyRomance

Synopsis

Beethoven returns in a new adventure where he has found a mate, Missy, and started a family, welcoming a litter of puppies. However, Missy's owner, Regina, plans to sell the puppies, threatening to break up the family. It falls to Beethoven and the Newton children to intervene and prevent the family from being separated.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 William D GordeanShot by Bill ButlerScored by Randy EdelmanDesigned by Lawrence Miller

Box Office

1993 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.9× 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

$118.2M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$118.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $53.4M 45% of worldwide · International: $64.8M (55%)

Opening weekend: $6.0M 11% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $10.7M20% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,026 theaters

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Also known as

  • Eine Familie namens Beethovende
  • Beethoven 2fr
  • Beethoven 2it

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