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Grease(1978)
Released
1978 · FILM

Grease

A rebellious greaser and an uptight new girl must navigate clashing social worlds at Rydell High while fighting the pressures of teen expectations to keep their summer romance alive.

“Grease is the word.”

Directed by
Randal Kleiser
Written by
Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
110 min
ComedyMusicalRomance
Streaming on
  • Kanopy

Synopsis

Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 59+ credited

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 John F BurnettShot by Bill ButlerDesigned by Philip M Jefferies

Box Office

1978 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 66× 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

$396.3M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$396.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $160.0M — 40% of worldwide · International: $236.3M (60%)

Opening weekend: $8.9M — 6% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 862 theaters

Re-release box office

202075 theaters
$102K($130K today)
2018735 theaters
$2.1M($2.7M today)
19982,064 theaters
$47.4M($96.2M today)
Total re-release
$49.6M

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Greasede
  • Grease - Schmierede
  • Vaselina o Brillantinaes
  • Grease - Brillantinait

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