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Released
1991 · FILM

For the Boys

“Laughter and tears. Tragedy and triumph. They lived it all. For the boys.”

Directed by
Mark Rydell
Written by
Neal Jimenez, Lindy Laub
Runtime
138 min
ComedyDramaMusic

Synopsis

USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks navigate their relationship across five decades, from the World War II era through the Vietnam War period and into their later years in the 1990s.

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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 Gerald B GreenbergShot by Stephen GoldblattScored by Dave GrusinDesigned by Assheton Gorton

Box Office

1991 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$23.2M

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$23.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $17.9M — 77% of worldwide · International: $5.3M (23%)

Opening weekend: $71K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.4M — 8% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2 theaters

Also known as

  • For the Boys – Tage des Ruhms, Tage der Liebede
  • Giorni di gloria... giorni d'amoreit

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