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Released
1990 · FILM

Marked for Death

Retired DEA troubleshooter John Hatcher returns home to eradicate a wave of deadly Jamaican drug dealers, but the ruthless kingpin Screwface marks him and his family for death, forcing Hatcher into a lethal battle to save them.

“He's a good cop. In a bad mood.”

Directed by
Dwight H Little
Written by
Michael Grais, Mark Victor
Runtime
93 min
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

After retiring from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown, only to find that drugs have taken root in his former neighborhood. Resolute in his mission to eliminate the dealers, Hatcher comes into conflict with a ruthless Jamaican drug lord, who retaliates by declaring Hatcher and his family targets for death.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 O Nicholas BrownShot by Ric WaiteScored by James Newton HowardDesigned by Robb Wilson King

Box Office

1990 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.8× 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

$46.0M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$46.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $46.0M — 100% of worldwide · International: $4 (0%)

Opening weekend: $14.3M — 31% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $14.3M — 31% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,968 theaters

Also known as

  • Zum Töten freigegebende
  • Désigné pour mourirfr
  • Programmato per uccidereit

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