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Released
1995 · FILM

Blue in the Face

Welcome to the planet Brooklyn.

Runtime
83 min
Comedy

Synopsis

A group of eccentric locals regularly visits their neighborhood cigar shop in search of good times and ends up having plenty of humorous adventures. However, when the shop's greedy owner announces plans to shut it down and replace it with a trendy vegetarian restaurant, the community bands together, determined to do nearly anything to preserve their beloved gathering place.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Christopher TellefsenShot by Adam HolenderDesigned by Kalina Ivanov

Box Office

1995 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$1.3M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$1.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $1.3M 98% of worldwide · International: $31K (2%)

Opening weekend: $104K 8% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $155K12% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 16 theaters

Also known as

  • Blue in the Face - Alles Blauer Dunstde
  • Brooklyn Boogiefr

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