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Released
1986 · FILM

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

When a suicidal drifter crashes into their pool, a pampered Beverly Hills couple must confront their own emptiness while trying to rescue and reintegrate the stranger before his chaotic presence upends their perfect lives.

“See what happens when a dirty bum meets the filthy rich.”

Directed by
Paul Mazursky
Written by
Rene Fauchois, Paul Mazursky
Runtime
103 min
Comedy
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A Beverly Hills couple, Barbara and Dave Whiteman, experience a dramatic shift in their lives when a vagrant attempts to drown himself in their swimming pool.

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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 Richard HalseyShot by Donald McalpineScored by Andy SummersDesigned by Pato Guzman

Box Office

1986 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.4× 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

$62.1M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$62.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.7M — 9% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.7M — 12% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 806 theaters

Also known as

  • Zoff in Beverly Hillsde
  • Un loco suelto en Hollywoodes
  • Le Clochard de Beverly Hillsfr
  • Su e giù per Beverly Hillsit

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