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Léon: The Professional(1994)
Released
1994 · FILM

Léon: The Professional

Leon, a reclusive hitman, takes in a traumatized 12-year-old girl after she witnesses her family's brutal murder, forcing him to confront his violent past and protect her from the corrupt DEA agents and criminals closing in on them.

“If you want the job done right, hire a professional.”

Directed by
Luc Besson
Written by
Luc Besson
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
111 min
Language
FR
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 62+ credited

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 Sylvie LandraShot by Thierry ArbogastScored by Eric SerraDesigned by Dan Weil

Box Office

1994 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.8× 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

$45.3M

Budget$16.0M
Worldwide gross$45.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $19.5M — 43% of worldwide · International: $25.8M (57%)

Opening weekend: $5.3M — 27% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.9M — 40% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,158 theaters

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Also known as

  • Leon - Der Profide
  • Léon - Der Profide
  • Léon the Professionalde
  • The Cleanerde
  • The Professionalde
  • The Professionalen

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