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Released
1987 · FILM

Best Seller

Writing A Book Is Easy. Writing A Best Seller Is Murder.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
95 min
ActionCrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A hit man named Cleve approaches Dennis, a writer and police officer, with an idea for Dennis's next book: a story detailing Cleve's career and his work for one of the country's most powerful politicians. To ensure accuracy, the two travel across the country to collect statements and gather evidence. However, powerful forces attempt to prevent the story from being told, using every means at their disposal to keep it hidden.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 RosenbloomShot by Fred MurphyScored by Jay FergusonDesigned by Gene Rudolf

Box Office

1987 · Box office

Grossed $4.3M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$4.3M

Worldwide gross$4.3M

Opening weekend: $905K 21% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $1.2M29% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 253 theaters

Also known as

  • hot fuzzde
  • Pacte avec un tueurfr

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