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Released
1990 · FILM

My Blue Heaven

An FBI agent assigned to guard a reformed mobster in witness protection must keep him alive—and out of trouble—as the mob closes in and the man's wild past threatens to resurface.

A comedy about a government witness who gives suburbia a culture shock.

Runtime
97 min
ComedyCrime

Synopsis

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure and informant Vincent Antonelli. While participants in the witness protection program are expected to remain inconspicuous, Antonelli struggles with maintaining a low profile. Coopersmith faces the challenge of keeping Antonelli safe from Mafia hitmen seeking to prevent him from testifying, as well as from the distractions of his frequent nightclub visits.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 40

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 Robert M ReitanoShot by Marc FelperlaanScored by Dick MaasDesigned by Charles Rosen

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

$23

Budget$6
Worldwide gross$23
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.2M 26% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $9.5M40% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,859 theaters

Also known as

  • Das Schlitzohr von der Mafiade
  • My Blue Heavende
  • Mi querido mafiosoes
  • Un pourri au paradisfr
  • Il testimone più pazzo del mondoit

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