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Released
1989 · FILM

In Country

Directed by
Norman Jewison
Written by
Bobbie Ann Mason, Frank Pierson
Runtime
120 min
DramaRomanceWar

Synopsis

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Samantha becomes obsessed with finding out about her father.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Antony GibbsShot by Russell BoydScored by James HornerDesigned by Jackson De Govia

Box Office

1989 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$3.5M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$3.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $37K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $54K — 2% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4 theaters

Also known as

  • Zurück aus der Höllede
  • Recuerdos de guerraes
  • Un héros comme tant d'autresfr
  • Vietnam: verità da dimenticareit

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