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Released
1986 · FILM

Club Paradise

The vacation you'll never forget - no matter how hard you try.

Directed by
Runtime
96 min
Comedy

Synopsis

After retiring from his job as a Chicago firefighter, Jack Moniker relocates to a small Caribbean island, where he meets the owner of a dilapidated resort. The two form a friendship and collaborate to restore the resort, transforming it into Club Paradise. Their goal is to attract tourists and generate enough success to resist takeover by corrupt local officials and businessmen seeking to seize the resort for themselves.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Marion RothmanShot by Peter HannanScored by David MansfieldDesigned by John Graysmark

Box Office

1986 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$12.3M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$12.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.2M 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $6.0M49% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,172 theaters

Also known as

  • Club Paraísoes

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