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Released
1978 · FILM

Hooper

“Ain't nobody can fly a car like Hooper!”

Directed by
Hal Needham
Written by
Thomas Rickman, Bill Kerby
Runtime
99 min
ActionComedy

Synopsis

Sonny Hooper is a renowned stunt performer who continues to be one of the leading figures in his field. However, due to repeated stressful impacts to his spine and the need to take painkillers multiple times a day, he is aware that he should leave the industry before risking permanent disability.

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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 Donn CambernShot by Bobby ByrneScored by Bill Justis

Box Office

1978 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 13× 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

$78.0M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$78.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Um Kopf und Kragende
  • La Fureur du dangerfr

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