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Released
1989 · FILM

Heavy Petting

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
74 min
Documentary

Synopsis

Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffman, and poet Allen Ginsberg-- recall their earliest sexual experiences.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

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 Joshua WaletzkyShot by Sandi Sissel

Box Office

1989 · Box office

Grossed $272K worldwide

Worldwide gross

$272K

Worldwide gross$272K

Opening weekend: $69K 25% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $105K38% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 10 theaters

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