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Released
1989 · FILM

Johnny Handsome

“They changed his looks, his life and his future... but they couldn't change his past .”

Directed by
Walter Hill
Written by
John Godey, Ken Friedman
Runtime
94 min
CrimeDramaThriller

Synopsis

A career criminal, born with a severe facial deformity, receives a new face through the kindness of a doctor and is subsequently paroled from prison. On the surface, he appears to have turned his life around, but in reality, he is secretly plotting revenge against the man responsible for killing his mentor and sending him to prison.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 AronShot by Matthew F LeonettiScored by Ry CooderDesigned by Gene Rudolf

Box Office

1989 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$7.2M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$7.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.4M — 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $3.3M — 45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 812 theaters

Also known as

  • Johnny Handsome – Der schöne Johnnyde
  • Johnny el Guapoes
  • Johnny Belle Gueulefr
  • Johnny il belloit

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