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Released
1987 · FILM

Fight for Life

Runtime
94 min
Drama

Synopsis

In the film, Jerry Lewis portrays an Ohio optometrist whose six-year-old daughter suffers from epilepsy. He becomes determined to persuade the FDA to approve a drug, which is available in England but not yet in the United States.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Leslie Dennis BrackenShot by Albert J DunkScored by Laurence RosenthalDesigned by Charles L Dunlop

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