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Released
1990 · FILM

Dick Tracy

Hard‑nosed detective Dick Tracy races to dismantle crime lord Big Boy Caprice’s empire, even as sultry femme fatale Breathless Mahoney tries to pull him into her dangerous web.

“Their turf. Their game. Their rules. They didn't count on HIS law...”

Directed by
Warren Beatty
Written by
Chester Gould, Jim Cash
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
105 min
ActionComedyCrime
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances toward him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Richard MarksShot by Vittorio StoraroScored by Danny ElfmanDesigned by Richard Sylbert

Box Office

1990 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.2× 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

$103.7M

Budget$47.0M
Worldwide gross$103.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $22.5M — 22% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $34.7M — 33% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,332 theaters

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