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Released
1989 · FILM

Let It Ride

“Everyone in the world deserves a day like this.”

Directed by
Joe Pytka
Written by
Jay Cronley, Nancy Dowd
Runtime
90 min
ActionComedy

Synopsis

A man with an ordinary demeanor and a minor gambling habit visits the racetrack, where he inexplicably experiences an unbroken streak of wins, no matter how he places his bets, leading to an extraordinary day of success.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Dede AllenShot by Curtis WehrScored by Giorgio MoroderDesigned by Wolf Kroeger

Box Office

1989 · 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

$4.9M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$4.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.9M — 39% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.9M — 58% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,191 theaters

Also known as

  • Alles auf Siegde
  • A rienda sueltaes
  • Deux dollars sur un tocardfr

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