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Released
2000 · FILM

Gun Shy

The Agency's best has a bad case of nerves.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
101 min
ComedyCrimeRomance

Synopsis

Charlie Mayough, a seasoned undercover DEA agent, begins to lose his composure under the pressure of his high-stakes career. As he approaches the brink of a mental breakdown, he becomes increasingly fearful of Fulvio Nesstra, a trigger-happy Mafia leader. To cope, Charlie turns to psychiatric treatment, finding support in an unstable therapy group and nurse Judy to help him manage his work responsibilities.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Pamela MartinShot by Tom RichmondScored by Rolfe KentDesigned by Maher Ahmad

Box Office

2000 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$1.6M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$1.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $703K 43% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $895K55% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 296 theaters

Also known as

  • Ein Herz & eine Kanonede
  • Ein Herz und eine Kanonede
  • Blanco perfectoes
  • Mafia paranofr

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