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Released
1997 · FILM

Good Burger

When high‑schooler Dexter lands a summer gig at the quirky Good Burger, he teams up with his goofy co‑worker Ed to outwit a slick corporate fast‑food empire threatening to shut down their beloved joint.

“A comedy with everything on it.”

Directed by
Brian Robbins
Written by
Dan Schneider, Kevin Kopelow
Runtime
95 min
ComedyFamily
Streaming on
  • Starz

Synopsis

Two high school students in Los Angeles, working summer jobs at the small burger restaurant Good Burger, attempt to save their business when a large corporate burger franchise opens a location directly across the street.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Anita Brandt BurgoyneShot by Mac AhlbergScored by Stewart CopelandDesigned by Steven J Jordan

Box Office

1997 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.8× 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

$23.7M

Budget$8.5M
Worldwide gross$23.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $7.1M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $10.5M — 44% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,887 theaters

Also known as

  • Good Burger - Die total verrückte Burger-Budede
  • Missione hamburgerit

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