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Released
1995 · FILM

Canadian Bacon

A floundering U.S. President launches an absurd Cold War with Canada to boost his sagging approval ratings, only to find the tiny nation’s stubborn resistance turning a political stunt into a full‑blown diplomatic nightmare.

It's lonely at the top when there's no butt left to kick.

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Runtime
91 min
ActionComedy

Synopsis

The U.S. president, whose approval ratings are low, is persuaded to boost his popularity by initiating a cold war with Canada.

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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 Michael BerenbaumShot by Haskell WexlerScored by Elmer BernsteinDesigned by Carol Spier

Box Office

1995 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× 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

$178K

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$178K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $74K

Peak 14 theaters

Also known as

  • Unsere feindlichen Nachbarnde

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