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Released
1990 · FILM

Lionheart

Deserting the French Foreign Legion, former soldier Lyon Gaultier races into America’s brutal underground fighting circuit to fund his dying brother’s medical care, risking his own life against lethal opponents and a shadowy crime world.

“When the streets are a jungle... There can only be one king.”

Directed by
Sheldon Lettich
Written by
Stefani Warren, Jean Claude Van Damme
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
105 min
ActionCrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Lyon Gaultier is a deserter from the Foreign Legion who arrives in the United States completely destitute. He discovers his brother in a critical condition between life and death, and his sister-in-law unable to afford the medical care for her husband or the means to support her child. In an effort to raise the necessary funds, Gaultier decides to participate in some highly dangerous clandestine fights.

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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 Mark ConteShot by Robert C NewScored by John ScottDesigned by Gregory Pickrell

Box Office

1990 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.0× 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

$24.3M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$24.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Leonde
  • Full Contactfr
  • Lionheart - Scommessa vincenteit

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