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Released
1988 · FILM

Johnny Be Good

“Every college in the country wants Johnny. 'Cause when he's good he's very very good. And when he's bad he's better.”

Directed by
Bud S Smith
Written by
Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai
Runtime
91 min
ComedySport
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

It's recruiting season, and despite his short and slender frame, Johnny Walker has become the most sought-after young football prospect in America. He faces a difficult decision: accept one of the numerous offers from college talent scouts or enroll at the local state college with his girlfriend and abandon his football ambitions.

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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 M Scott SmithShot by Robert D YeomanScored by Jay FergusonDesigned by Gregg Fonseca

Box Office

1988 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$17.6M

Budget$22.0M
Worldwide gross$17.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.2M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.3M — 42% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,168 theaters

Also known as

  • Toutes folles de luifr
  • La grande promessait

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