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1989 · FILM

Little Monsters

A skeptical kid trades rooms with his older brother to prove the monster under his bed is real, only to be drawn into a hidden realm where mischievous creatures run nightly pranks—forcing him to decide whether to embrace the chaos or protect his world from their havoc.

They cause all the trouble. But you’ll have all the fun.

AdventureComedyFamily

Synopsis

A young boy is afraid of the monster under his bed and asks his 6th-grade brother to swap rooms for the night as part of a bet that the monster is real. The brother soon befriends the monster and uncovers a whole new world of fun and games beneath the bed, where pulling pranks on children and other monsters is the main activity.

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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 Patrick McmahonShot by Dick BushScored by David NewmanDesigned by Paul Peters

Box Office

1989 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$794K

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$794K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $254K 32% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $388K49% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 179 theaters

Also known as

  • Kleine Monsterde
  • Piccoli mostriit

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