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Released
1994 · FILM

Car 54, Where Are You?

An arresting comedy.

Directed by
Runtime
89 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Officer Gunther Toody, a brash New York City policeman, is partnered with the by‑the‑book Officer Francis Muldoon to protect an important mafia witness before the witness testifies against organized crime in Brooklyn. While on this assignment they contend with personal issues, overbearing spouses, common criminals, arms dealers and their supervising Captain Anderson.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

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 BalsamShot by Rodney ChartersScored by Geoffrey Leigh TozerDesigned by Catherine Hardwicke

Box Office

1994 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$1.2M

Budget$10.7M
Worldwide gross$1.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $791K 64% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $971K78% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 608 theaters

Also known as

  • Wagen 54, bitte melden!de
  • Coche 54 ¿dónde estás?es
  • Police... secours !fr

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