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Released
2004 · FILM

Johnson Family Vacation

“Take the ride.”

Directed by
Christopher Erskin
Written by
Todd R Jones, Earl Richey Jones
Runtime
97 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Nate Johnson, a man from Los Angeles who is separated from his wife and three children, attempts to reestablish a connection with his family by inviting them to join him on a road trip to Missouri for a large family reunion.

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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 John CarterShot by Jeff BarnettScored by Al EatonDesigned by Keith Brian Burns

Box Office

2004 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.6× 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

$31.2M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$31.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.4M — 8% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.4M — 8% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,273 theaters

Also known as

  • Familie Johnson geht auf Reisende
  • Les Vacances de la famille Johnsonfr

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