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Released
2008 · FILM

Drillbit Taylor

Three high‑school freshmen desperate to survive a relentless school bully hire a mysterious “bodyguard,” only to discover their protector is a clueless drifter whose fake bravado threatens to make the danger even worse.

“You get what you pay for.”

Directed by
Steven Brill
Written by
Kristofor Brown, Seth Rogen
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
110 min
ActionComedyCrime

Synopsis

Three high school freshmen, facing harassment from a sociopathic school bully, decide to hire a low-budget bodyguard for protection. Unbeknownst to them, the person they hire is a homeless beggar and petty thief seeking an easy source of income.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

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 Brady HeckShot by Fred MurphyScored by Christophe BeckDesigned by Jackson De Govia

Box Office

2008 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$32.9M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$32.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $32.9M — 100% of worldwide · International: $38K (0%)

Opening weekend: $10.3M — 31% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $14.8M — 45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,056 theaters

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  • Ein Mann für alle Unfällede

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