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Released
1991 · FILM

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Directed by
Runtime
106 min
DramaWestern

Synopsis

H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.

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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 Dennis M HillShot by Bernd HeinlScored by James Horner

Box Office

1991 · Box office

Grossed $3.6M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$3.6M

Worldwide gross$3.6M

Opening weekend: $1.4M 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.7M48% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 850 theaters

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