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Released
1990 · FILM

Coupe de Ville

A comedy for everyone who ever struggled to love a brother...or strangle one.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
99 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

Meet the Libner brothers: Marvin, the oldest, is a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Buddy, the middle child, is a timid dreamer. Bobby, the youngest, is a handsome rebel in reform school. As kids, they fought a lot and as adults, they barely speak. In the summer of 1963, their tough and eccentric father, Fred, gives them a task: to bring a 1954 Cadillac, bought for their mother, Betty, from Detroit to Miami. As the trip goes on, the three brothers fight and begin to reconnect with each other, while trying to keep the Caddy in mint condition.

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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 Paul HirschShot by Reynaldo VillalobosScored by James Newton HowardDesigned by Angelo P Graham

Box Office

1990 · Box office

Grossed $715 worldwide

Worldwide gross

$715

Worldwide gross$715

Opening weekend: $67K 9% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $95K13% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 7 theaters

Also known as

  • Wild Boysde
  • Wild Boys - Der Sommer ihres Lebensde
  • El cadillac azules
  • Coupé de villeit

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