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1986 · FILM

Lucas

A socially awkward 14-year-old boy must navigate the painful transition from friendship to heartbreak when his older-brother figure starts dating the new girl he’s secretly in love with.

It's about falling in love. For the first time.

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Written by
Runtime
108 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

A socially awkward 14-year-old boy faces his first heartbreak when his two closest friends—Cappie, who serves as an older-brother figure, and Maggie, a new girl he is in love with—begin a relationship with each other.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

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 Priscilla Nedd FriendlyShot by Reynaldo VillalobosScored by Dave Grusin

Box Office

1986 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× 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

$8.2M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$8.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.3M 15% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.9M23% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 628 theaters

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