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Released
1993 · FILM

Loaded Weapon 1

Two mismatched detectives race against a madcap criminal syndicate to stop a batch of cocaine‑laced cookies from flooding the city, risking their own sanity and the law as they chase clues through absurd conspiracies and explosive set‑pieces.

“Oh my God. They have guns!”

Directed by
Gene Quintano
Written by
Don Holley, Tori Tellem
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
84 min
ActionComedyCrime

Synopsis

An Los Angeles detective is murdered after coming into possession of microfilm containing the recipe for cocaine-infused cookies. Two police officers join forces to track down and halt the criminals before they can drug the public by distributing the tainted products through the "Wilderness Girls" cookie drive.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Christopher GreenburyShot by Peter DemingScored by Robert FolkDesigned by Jaymes Hinkle

Box Office

1993 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.2× 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

$28.0M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$28.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $9.2M — 33% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $11.3M — 40% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,989 theaters

Also known as

  • Loaded Weaponde
  • National Lampoon's Loaded Weaponen
  • National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1en
  • Alarme fatalefr
  • Palle in cannait

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Production3 Arts Entertainment

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