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Released
1992 · FILM

Out on a Limb

“He's got 24 hours to find his missing wallet with a phone number worth a hundred million dollars. There's only one place he hasn't looked...”

Directed by
Francis Veber
Written by
Daniel Goldin, Joshua Goldin
Runtime
82 min
Comedy

Synopsis

While heading to the town where his sister, Marci, lives, big-city banker Bill Campbell is robbed by a woman who takes everything he has, including his clothes and a business document worth millions of dollars. Bill eventually reunites with Marci, who is in a tizzy because she thinks their stepfather has been killed. While trying to determine if his sister is right, Bill must also get back his valuable paperwork.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Barry DresnerShot by Donald E ThorinScored by Van Dyke ParksDesigned by Stephen Marsh

Box Office

1992 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$1.7M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$1.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $1.7M — 98% of worldwide · International: $40K (2%)

Opening weekend: $1.3M — 76% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.3M — 76% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 703 theaters

Also known as

  • Ein Yuppie steht im Waldde
  • Caerse del guindoes
  • Sur la corde raidefr
  • Ma capita tutto a me?it

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