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Released
2011 · FILM

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

FBI agent Malcolm Turner and his teenage son go undercover as a flamboyant “Big Momma” and a student at an all‑girls performing arts academy to track down a murderer before their disguises are exposed.

“Momma's got back-up.”

Directed by
John Whitesell
Written by
Matthew Fogel, Don Rhymer
Runtime
107 min
ActionComedyCrime

Synopsis

FBI agent Malcolm Turner and his 17-year-old son, Trent, go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Disguised as Big Momma and Charmaine, they must locate the killer before he discovers their presence.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Priscilla Nedd FriendlyShot by Anthony B RichmondScored by David NewmanDesigned by Meghan C Rogers

Box Office

2011 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.6× 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

$82.7M

Budget$32.0M
Worldwide gross$82.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $37.9M — 46% of worldwide · International: $44.8M (54%)

Opening weekend: $16.3M — 43% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $21.0M — 55% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,821 theaters

Also known as

  • Big Mama's Haus - Die doppelte Portionde
  • Big Mamma : De père en filsfr
  • Big Mama - Tale padre, tale figlioit

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