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Released
1997 · FILM

Most Wanted

A Marine on death row is given a second chance when a mysterious military officer recruits him for a secret mission, but he becomes the prime suspect in the First Lady's assassination as his handlers turn against him.

Sometimes the most patriotic thing a Marine can do...is disobey orders. From most honored to Most Wanted.

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Runtime
99 min
ActionThriller

Synopsis

A Marine facing a death sentence is recruited by a mysterious U.S. military officer to join a classified operations team. After participating in the mission, he is wrongly accused of murder when the team and the officer frame him for the assassination of the First Lady.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Mark HelfrichShot by Marc ReshovskyScored by Paul BuckmasterDesigned by Jean Philippe Carp

Box Office

1997 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$11.8M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$11.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $6.4M 54% of worldwide · International: $5.4M (46%)

Opening weekend: $2.8M 44% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.8M59% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,098 theaters

Also known as

  • America's Most Wantedde
  • Se buscaes
  • Wanted recherché mort ou viffr
  • Testimone involontarioit

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