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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) Original Trailer [FHD]

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story(2004)
Released
2004 · FILM

DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

When a scrappy gym owner discovers that only a $50,000 prize from a high‑stakes dodgeball tournament can stop his ruthless rival from bulldozing his beloved fitness center, he rallies his eccentric staff and members for one underdog showdown that could save—or ruin—their community hub.

“Grab life by the ball.”

Directed by
Rawson Marshall Thurber
Written by
Rawson Marshall Thurber
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
93 min
ComedySport
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there is a clash between the two very different approaches to fitness and community.

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A crew of 59+ credited

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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 Alan BaumgartenShot by Jerzy ZielinskiScored by Theodore ShapiroDesigned by Maher Ahmad

Box Office

2004 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.4× 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

$168.4M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$168.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $114.3M — 68% of worldwide · International: $54.1M (32%)

Opening weekend: $30.1M — 26% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $48.7M — 43% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,694 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Voll auf die Nüssede
  • Dodgeballen
  • Dodgeball ! Même pas mal !fr
  • Palle al balzo - Dodgeballit

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