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Released
1980 · FILM

Fame

Talented teens battle ambition, rivalry and personal hardship as they strive for stardom at New York’s elite performing‑arts high school.

“If they've really got what it takes, it's going to take everything they've got.”

Directed by
Alan Parker, Alan Parker Nm0000570
Written by
Christopher Gore
Runtime
133 min
DramaMusicMusical
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

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 Gerry HamblingShot by Michael SeresinScored by Michael GoreDesigned by Geoffrey Kirkland

Box Office

1980 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.9× 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

$42.0M

Budget$8.5M
Worldwide gross$42.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $21.2M — 50% of worldwide · International: $20.8M (50%)

Opening weekend: $118K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 3 theaters

Also known as

  • Fame - Der Weg zum Ruhmde
  • Saranno famosiit

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