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Released
2007 · FILM

Big Stan

A hapless con artist sentenced to prison hires a mysterious martial‑arts master to turn him into a fighting machine, racing against ruthless inmates who will stop at nothing to crush him.

“He'll have to kick some butt to save his own.”

Directed by
Rob Schneider
Written by
Josh Lieb
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
109 min
ActionComedy
Streaming on
  • The Roku Channel

Synopsis

A con man with a weak character panics upon learning he is to be sent to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts expert, who trains and transforms him into a skilled martial artist capable of defending himself against inmates who either want to harm or target him.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Greg BaborShot by Victor HammerScored by John HunterDesigned by Perry Andelin Blake

Box Office

2007 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× 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

$8.7M

Budget$7.5M
Worldwide gross$8.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Big Stande
  • Le Grand Stanfr

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