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Released
1999 · FILM

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

Down-on-his-luck aquarium cleaner Deuce Bigalow becomes an accidental male prostitute to raise cash for a costly house‑sitting disaster, only to juggle demanding clients, a budding romance, and a relentless cop hot on his trail.

“He charges $10 but he’s willing to negotiate.”

Directed by
Mike Mitchell
Written by
Harris Goldberg, Rob Schneider
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
88 min
ComedyRomance
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Deuce Bigalow is an unattractive, down-on-his-luck aquarium cleaner. After accidentally wrecking the house of a gigolo, he needs quick money to cover the damages. To earn it, he becomes a gigolo himself, taking on a diverse and unusual mix of female clients. However, he faces two major challenges: he falls in love with one of his clients, and a corrupt police officer begins to investigate his activities.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 32

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 Lawrence JordanShot by Peter Lyons CollisterScored by Teddy CastellucciDesigned by Alan Au

Box Office

1999 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.5× 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

$92.9M

Budget$17.0M
Worldwide gross$92.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $65.5M — 71% of worldwide · International: $27.4M (29%)

Opening weekend: $12.2M — 19% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $16.0M — 24% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,154 theaters

Also known as

  • Rent a Man - Ein Mann für gewisse Sekundende
  • Rent-A-Mande
  • Deuce Bigalow : Gigolo à tout prixfr
  • Gigolò per sbaglioit

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