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Released
2014 · FILM

Big Game

A determined 13‑year‑old Finnish boy must shield a stranded U.S. President from relentless terrorists in the frozen wilderness, racing against time to outwit their pursuit and secure their escape.

Directed by
Jalmari Helander
Written by
Jalmari Helander, Petri Jokiranta
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
90 min
ActionAdventureComedy

Synopsis

In the film *Air Force One*, the President of the United States is stranded in the wilderness of Finland after the aircraft is shot down by terrorists. Meanwhile, 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting trip to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking a deer, but instead stumbles upon the President in an escape pod. As the terrorists close in to recapture the President, the two form an unlikely alliance to evade their pursuers and escape.

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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 Iikka HesseShot by Mika OrasmaaScored by Juri SeppaDesigned by Christian Eisele

Box Office

2014 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$7.5M

Budget$8.5M
Worldwide gross$7.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Big Gamede
  • Big Game – Die Jagd beginntde
  • Caza mayores
  • Big Game - Caccia al Presidenteit

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