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Released
2014 · FILM

Let's Be Cops

A struggling video game designer and his unemployed friend, pretending to be cops at a college reunion, find their fake identities dangerously mistaken for real as they confront an Albanian gang and chase a last chance at redemption.

“Fake Cops. Real Trouble.”

Directed by
Luke Greenfield
Written by
Luke Greenfield, Nicholas Thomas
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
104 min
ActionComedyCrime

Synopsis

Two friends, Ryan and Justin, find themselves stuck in unfulfilling careers and attend a college reunion dressed as police officers, mistakenly believing it to be a costume party. Their uniforms attract attention and respect, and despite Justin’s discomfort, Ryan continues the deception, leading them into increasingly hazardous circumstances. When they become entangled with actual mobsters and corrupt detectives, the pair must risk their fabricated authority.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 90+ 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 Darbi RobertsShot by Daryn OkadaScored by Christophe BeckDesigned by William Arnold

Box Office

2014 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.0× 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

$136.6M

Budget$17.0M
Worldwide gross$136.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $82.4M — 60% of worldwide · International: $54.2M (40%)

Opening weekend: $8.4M — 10% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $8.4M — 10% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,936 theaters

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Also known as

  • Let's be Cops - Die Party Bullende
  • Cops : les forces du désordrefr
  • Bastardi in divisait

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