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Released
1988 · FILM

Moon Over Parador

“He's not the first actor to impersonate a president... but he may be the last.”

Directed by
Paul Mazursky
Written by
Charles G Booth, Leon Capetanos
Runtime
103 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

Jack Noah, an underappreciated actor, is on location in Parador when the dictator dies. The dictator's right-hand man offers Jack a role he cannot refuse: to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills deceive the public but not the dictator's close friends and employees.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Stuart H PappeShot by Donald McalpineScored by Maurice JarreDesigned by Pato Guzman

Box Office

1988 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$11.4M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$11.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.3M — 29% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.2M — 37% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,145 theaters

Also known as

  • Mond über Paradorde
  • Pleine lune sur Paradorfr
  • Il dittatore del Parador in arte Jackit

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