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Released
1983 · FILM

BMX Bandits

“They're burning up the streets!”

Directed by
Brian Trenchard Smith
Written by
Patrick Edgeworth, Russell Hagg
Runtime
92 min
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

P.J. and Goose are teenagers in Sydney, Australia, who enjoy riding BMX bikes and performing daring stunts. They are joined by their new friend Judy, and together they come across a box of walkie-talkies. They learn that a group of criminals plans to use the devices to intercept police communications during a bank heist. When the three friends take possession of the walkie-talkies, they are drawn into an intense adventure where their cycling abilities may be the key to their survival.

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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 Alan LakeShot by John SealeScored by Colin SteadDesigned by Ross Major

Box Office

1983 · 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

$2.5M

Budget$980K
Worldwide gross$2.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die BMX-Bandede
  • Los Bicivoladoreses
  • Le Gang des BMXfr
  • La banda della BMXit

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