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Released
1980 · FILM

Cruising

Rookie cop Steve Burns goes undercover in New York’s hidden leather scene to trap a sadistic serial killer preying on bar patrons, risking his own identity and the city's fragile peace as he races against a shadowy predator who thrives in darkness.

“Al Pacino is Cruising for a killer.”

Directed by
William Friedkin
Written by
William Friedkin, Gerald Walker
Runtime
102 min
CrimeDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.

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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 Bud S SmithShot by James A ContnerScored by Jack NitzscheDesigned by Bruce Weintraub

Box Office

1980 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.8× 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

$19.8M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$19.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $19.8M — 100% of worldwide · International: $30K (0%)

Also known as

  • La Chassefr

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