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Released
1982 · FILM

My Favorite Year

“The year the dreams came true.”

Directed by
Richard Benjamin
Written by
Norman Steinberg, Dennis Palumbo
Runtime
92 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

Benjy Stone, an aspiring comic, is thrilled when his childhood hero, the dashing matinee idol Alan Swann, is booked to appear on the variety show Benjy writes for. However, Swann proves to be a far cry from the swashbuckling legend Benjy imagined. Upon arrival, Swann is revealed to be a troubled, alcoholic womanizer who suffers from severe stage fright. Benjy is tasked with overseeing Swann in the lead-up to the show, and he struggles to keep his former idol from descending into chaos.

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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 Richard ChewShot by Gerald HirschfeldScored by Ralph BurnsDesigned by Charles Rosen

Box Office

1982 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.5× 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

$20.1M

Budget$7.9M
Worldwide gross$20.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Ein Draufgänger in New Yorkde
  • Mi año favoritoes
  • Où est passée mon idole ?fr
  • L'ospite d'onoreit

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