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1997 · FILM

Flubber

Absent‑minded Professor Phillip Brainard races to invent a miraculous, bouncing energy source that can rescue his financially doomed college—only to unleash an uncontrollable, gravity‑defying substance that threatens his career, his romance, and the entire campus.

“Catch it if you can!”

Directed by
Les Mayfield, Peter Crosman
Written by
Samuel W Taylor, John Hughes
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
93 min
ComedyFamilySci-Fi

Synopsis

Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent-minded academic, collaborates with his assistant Weebo in an effort to develop a new energy source to save Medfield College, where his sweetheart Sara serves as president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third attempt to marry, he invents flubber, a substance that enables objects to float and fly through the air.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 237+ credited

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 Harvey RosenstockShot by Dean CundeyScored by Danny ElfmanDesigned by Andrew McalpineSound by Agamemnon AndrianosCostumes by April FerryStunts by Freddie Hice

Box Office

1997 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.2× 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

$178.0M

Budget$80.0M
Worldwide gross$178.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $93.0M — 52% of worldwide · International: $85.0M (48%)

Versions & cuts

  • DVD· 90 min
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • CanadaNov 4, 1997
  • United StatesNov 4, 1997
  • IndonesiaNov 28, 1997
  • SingaporeNov 28, 1997

Companies

ProductionWalt Disney Pictures, Great Oaks Entertainment

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