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Released
1973 · FILM

Coffy

A determined nurse turns vigilante after her sister is scarred by contaminated heroin, unleashing brutal justice on the criminals fueling the city's drug trade.

“The Baddest One-Chick Hit-Squad that ever hit town!”

Directed by
Jack Hill
Written by
Jack Hill
Runtime
90 min
ActionCrimeThriller
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

After her younger sister becomes involved with drugs and suffers serious injuries from contaminated heroin, a nurse embarks on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, targeting and killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters she encounters.

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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 Chuck McclellandShot by Paul LohmannScored by Roy Ayers

Box Office

1973 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.0× 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

$4.0M

Budget$500K
Worldwide gross$4.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Coffy - Die Raubkatzede

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