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Released
1994 · FILM

Clifford

“What's the difference between Clifford and a pit bull? One will tear your heart out, scare your friends and wreck your house. The other one is a dog.”

Directed by
Paul Flaherty
Written by
William Porter, Steven Kampmann
Runtime
89 min
Comedy
Streaming on
  • MUBI

Synopsis

When Martin Daniels' brother asks him to care for his young son, Clifford, he agrees, bringing the boy into his home and introducing him to his future wife, Sarah. Clifford becomes obsessed with the idea of visiting a famous theme park, and Martin, an engineer who helped build the park, begins making plans to take him. However, as Clifford's difficult behavior becomes apparent, Martin becomes increasingly frustrated, leading to a chaotic and tense confrontation between the two.

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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 Tim BoardShot by John A AlonzoScored by Richard GibbsDesigned by Russell Christian

Box Office

1994 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$7.4M

Budget$19.0M
Worldwide gross$7.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $7.4M — 100% of worldwide · International: $3K (0%)

Opening weekend: $2.6M — 35% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.6M — 35% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,014 theaters

Also known as

  • Clifford - Das kleine Scheusalde
  • Ma chi me l'ha fatto fare!it

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