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Released
1986 · FILM

One Crazy Summer

A teen cartoonist teams up with his friends to help a rising singer defend her family's land from ruthless developers, racing against time to keep the home—and their dreams—intact.

“They're out of school, out on Nantucket, and out of their minds. With this crowd, anything can happen!”

Directed by
Savage Steve Holland
Written by
Savage Steve Holland
Runtime
93 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

A teenage cartoonist with aspirations of becoming a professional and his group of friends help a singer who is attempting to protect her family's property from being taken over by developers.

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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 Alan BalsamShot by Isidore MankofskyScored by Cory LeriosDesigned by Herman F Zimmerman

Box Office

1986 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.4× 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

$13.0M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$13.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.4M — 26% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $5.5M — 41% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 984 theaters

Also known as

  • Ein ganz verrückter Sommerde
  • Un été fou foufr
  • Una folle estateit

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