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Released
1990 · FILM

Graffiti Bridge

Music is the power. Love is the message. Truth is the answer.

Runtime
95 min
DramaMusic

Synopsis

This film captures the *Purple Rain* vibe throughout and features Prince as "The Kid," his first return to the role since *Purple Rain*. The soundtrack includes songs such as "Thieves in the Temple," "New Power Generation," "Elephants and Flowers," and other popular tracks from the platinum-selling *Graffiti Bridge* album. Morris Day and the Time perform "Release It" and "Shake!" while other artists featured include George Clinton, Tevin Campbell, Robin Power, Mavis Staples, and more. *Graffiti Bridge* blends film and music into a crossover experience.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Conrad M GonzalezShot by Bill ButlerScored by PrinceDesigned by Vance Lorenzini

Box Office

1990 · 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

$4.6M

Budget$7.5M
Worldwide gross$4.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.4M 54% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.9M64% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 688 theaters

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