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Released
2003 · FILM

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

Two dim-witted teens team up to pull off an outrageous scheme that could catapult them to high‑school fame, all while their harebrained antics threaten to blow everything sky‑high.

“The evolution of dumb...”

Directed by
Troy Miller
Written by
Peter Farrelly, Bennett Yellin
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
85 min
Comedy

Synopsis

This comedic prequel to the 1994 blockbuster returns to the bumbling antics of Harry and Lloyd.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Anthony B RichmondScored by Eban SchletterDesigned by Paul Huggins

Box Office

2003 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.1× 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

$39.3M

Budget$19.0M
Worldwide gross$39.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $26.3M — 67% of worldwide · International: $13.0M (33%)

Opening weekend: $11.1M — 42% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $15.7M — 60% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,609 theaters

Also known as

  • Dumm und Dümmererde
  • Scemo & più scemo - Iniziò così...it

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