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Released
1990 · FILM

Class of 1999

Directed by
Mark L Lester
Written by
Mark L Lester, C Courtney Joyner
Runtime
99 min
ActionHorrorSci-Fi

Synopsis

Set in a future where youth gang violence has escalated to the point that areas surrounding certain schools have become "free-fire zones"—too dangerous even for police to enter—*The Time is in the Future* follows the efforts of Miles Langford, the principal of Kennedy High School, to reclaim his school from gang control. Seeking a solution, Langford enlists the help of robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest, who provides "tactical education units"—highly advanced, human-like androids programmed to teach and equipped with powerful tools for managing discipline. As the violent and unruly students of Kennedy High return to class, they are about to receive an education unlike any other—one that will teach them to survive.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Scott ConradShot by Mark IrwinScored by Michael HoenigDesigned by Steven Legler

Box Office

1990 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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$5.2M
Worldwide gross$2.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $768K — 31% of its US run.

Peak 320 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Klasse von 1999de
  • Clase de 1999es
  • Classe 1999it

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