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Released
1996 · FILM

Larger Than Life

“He's got 5 days to go coast-to-coast. (There's just one BIG problem.)”

Directed by
Howard Franklin
Written by
Roy Blount Jr, Pen Densham
Runtime
93 min
ComedyFamily
Streaming on
  • MGM+

Synopsis

Jack Corcoran, a motivational speaker striving to launch his career, struggles to land any significant speaking engagements, managing only to book the least desirable events. When he receives a telegram informing him of his father's death, Jack learns he has inherited a large elephant, the pride and joy of his circus clown father. Initially intent on selling the animal, Jack must choose between negotiating with the boisterous and unrefined zookeeper Mo or the appealing animal show owner Terry. As Jack and the elephant travel across the country, they form a bond that gradually transforms Jack's outlook on life in a positive way.

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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 Sidney LevinShot by Elliot DavisScored by Miles GoodmanDesigned by Marcia Hinds

Box Office

1996 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$8.3M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$8.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die dicke Verade
  • Una elefanta llamada Veraes
  • Un éléphant sur les brasfr
  • Per amore di Verait

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