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Released
1992 · FILM

Fortress

John Brennick must break out of a high‑tech underground penitentiary with his pregnant wife before the regime’s one‑child law forces them to die inside “The Fortress,” where surveillance and lethal devices turn every escape attempt into a deadly game of cat‑and‑mouse.

“In the year 2017, one corporation is building a fortress for the ultimate takeover... your mind.”

Directed by
Stuart Gordon
Written by
Troy Neighbors, Steven Feinberg
Runtime
95 min
ActionCrimeSci-Fi

Synopsis

In a future setting, the inmates of a private underground prison are monitored and controlled through advanced technology, including cameras, dream-reading devices, and instruments capable of inflicting pain or death. John and his wife Karen, who is carrying an illegal pregnancy, are imprisoned within "The Fortress," but they are resolved to escape before the birth of their child.

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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 Tim WellburnShot by David EggbyScored by Frederic TalgornDesigned by David Copping

Box Office

1992 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$6.7M

Budget$8.0M
Worldwide gross$6.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Fortress - Die Festungde
  • 2013 - La fortezzait

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