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Released
1995 · FILM

Clockers

A young drug dealer must clear his name and protect his brother when a murder drags him into a ruthless police investigation that threatens to destroy everything he’s built.

“When there’s murder on the streets, everyone is a suspect.”

Directed by
Spike Lee
Written by
Richard Price, Spike Lee
Runtime
128 min
CrimeDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Strike is a young drug dealer operating under the guidance of drug lord Rodney Little. After a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is discovered shot four times, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the alleged perpetrator. However, Detective Rocco Klein is skeptical of the confession and begins an investigation to uncover the truth. As the inquiry unfolds, the evidence increasingly points to Strike and Rodney.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Sam PollardShot by Malik Hassan SayeedScored by Terence BlanchardDesigned by Andrew Mcalpine

Box Office

1995 · 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

$13.1M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$13.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $13.1M — 100% of worldwide · International: $28K (0%)

Opening weekend: $4.5M — 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $6.8M — 52% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,208 theaters

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