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Released
2018 · FILM

Help, I Shrunk My Parents

Small parents. Big trouble.

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Written by
Runtime
90 min
Language
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ActionAdventureComedy

Synopsis

Felix's school is haunted again, only this time it's not the benevolent spirit of school founder Otto Leonhard and the nuisance he caused, but the once hated and long-since dead Director Hulda Stingbeard. A coincidence causes the former shrunken and skeletonized school principle to rise again, leading to chaos...

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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 Marco Pav D AuriaShot by Felix PoplawskyScored by Anne Kathrin DernDesigned by Alexandra Maringer

Box Office

2018 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× 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

$8.4M

Budget$7.6M
Worldwide gross$8.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Help, I Shrunk My Parentsen
  • Socorro, he encogido a mis padreses
  • Au secours ! J'ai rétréci mes parentsfr
  • Aiuto, ho ristretto mamma e papà!it

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