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Released
1985 · FILM

Just One of the Guys

A determined teen masquerades as a male student to expose gender bias and win a prestigious writing contest, but her ruse spirals into chaos when she falls for the charismatic classmate whose trust she must keep.

“She's about to go where no girl has gone before!”

Directed by
Lisa Gottlieb
Written by
Dennis Feldman, Jeff Franklin
Runtime
100 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

Terry Griffith, after losing her high school's writing competition, believes the loss is due to her being a girl. Determined to test this assumption, she decides to switch schools and disguise herself as a boy. With the help of her brother, Buddy, Terry successfully passes as a male and begins making friends at her new school, including the attractive Rick, who becomes her closest friend. However, her secret becomes increasingly complicated when she develops feelings for him.

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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 Tony LombardoShot by John McphersonScored by Tom ScottDesigned by Paul Peters

Box Office

1985 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.0× 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

$11.5M

Budget$11.5M
Worldwide gross$11.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.3M — 29% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.1M — 35% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,215 theaters

Also known as

  • Als Junge ist sie spitzede
  • Lass mich mal ran! - Als Junge ist sie spitzede
  • Un chico como todoses
  • Un ragazzo come gli altriit

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