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Released
1984 · FILM

Hardbodies

“If you don't know what they are, you don't know what you're missing.”

Directed by
Mark Griffiths
Written by
Steve Greene, Eric Alter
Runtime
88 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Three middle‑aged fathers travel to California for a beach vacation. After discovering that a nice apartment and an expensive convertible do not attract women, they hire a student to assist them. Initially the student is disgusted with both his employers and his own girlfriend, but eventually all parties learn how to use the situation to their mutual advantage.

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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 Andy BlumenthalShot by Tom RichmondDesigned by Gregg Fonseca

Box Office

1984 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.6× 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

$7.1M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$7.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.7M — 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.4M — 48% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,538 theaters

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  • Curvas peligrosases

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