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Released
1994 · FILM

Getting Even with Dad

“Timmy's not getting mad he's...”

Directed by
Howard Deutch
Written by
Tom S Parker, Jim Jennewein
Runtime
109 min
ComedyCrimeFamily
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Ray, a con man, is preparing for one last heist to steal a stash of rare coins when his estranged son, Timmy, suddenly appears. Distracted by his plans for the robbery, Ray pays little attention to his son. In response, Timmy blackmails Ray into acting like a father, forcing him to hide the coins and promising to return them only after Ray spends time with him at amusement parks and baseball games.

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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 Richard HalseyShot by Tim SuhrstedtScored by Miles GoodmanDesigned by Virginia L Randolph

Box Office

1994 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.8× 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

$53.8M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$53.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $18.9M — 35% of worldwide · International: $34.9M (65%)

Also known as

  • Allein mit Dad & Co.de
  • Rends la monnaie, papafr
  • Papà ti aggiusto io!it

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