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Released
1989 · FILM

Dad

“Sometimes the greatest man you ever meet... is the first one.”

Directed by
Gary David Goldberg
Written by
William Wharton, Gary David Goldberg
Runtime
117 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up becoming his father's caretaker and grows closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his life.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Eric A SearsShot by Jan KiesserScored by James HornerDesigned by Jackson De Govia

Box Office

1989 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.0× 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

$19.7M

Budget$19.0M
Worldwide gross$19.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $540K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $759K — 3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 107 theaters

Also known as

  • Mi padrees
  • Mon pèrefr
  • Dad - Papàit

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