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Released
1996 · FILM

Black Sheep

A political aide tasked with hiding a governor candidate’s bumbling brother from the media gets more than he bargained for when the wild antics of the brother threaten to derail the entire campaign.

“There's one in every family.”

Directed by
Penelope Spheeris
Written by
Fred Wolf
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
86 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Albert Donnelly, a dignified candidate for governor, faces challenges when his slow-witted and clumsy younger brother, Mike, becomes an unintended focal point for media attention. To manage this, the campaign assigns Steve, a sarcastic staff member, to keep Mike out of the public eye. Steve's efforts to discreetly move Mike out of town during the election lead to unexpected and memorable experiences.

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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 Ross AlbertShot by Daryn OkadaScored by William RossDesigned by Peter Jamison

Box Office

1996 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 1.0× 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

$32.0M

Budget$32.4M
Worldwide gross$32.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $10.6M — 33% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $12.8M — 39% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,045 theaters

Also known as

  • Black Sheep - Schwarzes Schaf mit weißer Westede
  • La pecora nerait

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