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Released
1980 · FILM

Hardly Working

“The world's funniest funny man is back!”

Directed by
Jerry Lewis
Written by
Michael Janover, Jerry Lewis
Runtime
91 min
Comedy

Synopsis

In Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't seem to hold down a job. The film opens with a brief montage of clips from past Lewis movies. He then moves into a succession of jobs that he gets himself fired from including a gas station attendant and a mailman - all with disastrous results.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Michael LucianoShot by James PergolaScored by Morton Stevens

Box Office

1980 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 14× 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

$49.0M

Budget$3.4M
Worldwide gross$49.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Alles in Handarbeitde
  • ¡Dale fuerte! Jerryes
  • Au boulot... Jerry !fr
  • Bentornato picchiatelloit

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