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Released
1981 · FILM

Honky Tonk Freeway

Something funny is happening on this freeway.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
107 min
ActionComedy

Synopsis

Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

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 Jim ClarkShot by John BaileyScored by Elmer Bernstein

Box Office

1981 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× 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

$939K

Budget$24.0M
Worldwide gross$939K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $939K 47% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Peak 629 theaters

Also known as

  • Da steht der ganze Freeway kopfde
  • Desmadre en la autopistaes
  • Crazy Runners - Quei pazzi pazzi sulle autostradeit

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