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Released
1993 · FILM

Coneheads

An extraterrestrial couple crash‑lands on Earth and must masquerade as a quirky suburban family to avoid detection while secretly preparing for an intergalactic invasion, all while their bizarre habits and towering heads spark suspicion in a town that absurdly accepts them as French tourists.

“You may not notice them at first, but they are among us.”

Directed by
Steve Barron
Written by
Tom Davis, Dan Aykroyd
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
87 min
ComedySci-Fi

Synopsis

Two aliens, Beldar and Prymatt, arrive on Earth to prepare for an invasion but end up crashing instead. Characterized by their large cone-shaped heads, robot-like gait, and unusual appetite for toilet paper, they struggle to blend in with the residents of Paramus, New Jersey. Despite their obvious alien appearance, the locals inexplicably believe their claim of being from France.

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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 Paul TrejoShot by Francis KennyScored by David NewmanDesigned by Gregg Fonseca

Box Office

1993 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$21.3M

Budget$33.0M
Worldwide gross$21.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $7.1M — 33% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $10.9M — 51% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,978 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Coneheadsde
  • Teste di conoit

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