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Released
2008 · FILM

Meet Dave

A crew of tiny alien engineers pilots a human-shaped spaceship on a desperate mission to rescue their dying world, but when the ship unexpectedly falls in love with an Earth woman, they must juggle interstellar stakes and romantic chaos to complete their quest.

“There's a whole other world going on inside of him.”

Directed by
Brian Robbins
Written by
Rob Greenberg, Bill Corbett
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
90 min
AdventureComedyFamily
Streaming on
  • Starz

Synopsis

A crew of miniature aliens operates a spaceship designed in the form of a human. As they attempt to save their planet, they face a new challenge when their ship develops feelings for an Earth woman.

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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 Ned BastilleShot by Clark MathisScored by John DebneyDesigned by Clay A Griffith

Box Office

2008 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$50.7M

Budget$60.0M
Worldwide gross$50.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $11.8M — 23% of worldwide · International: $38.8M (77%)

Opening weekend: $5.3M — 44% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.7M — 66% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,011 theaters

Also known as

  • Mensch, Dave!de
  • Appelez-moi Davefr
  • Piacere Daveit

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