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Pearl Harbor (2001) - Trailer in HD (Fan Remaster)

Pearl Harbor(2001)
Released
2001 · FILM

Pearl Harbor

A daring young pilot with a secret dyslexia joins the perilous Eagle Squadron to fight Nazi skies, risking his life and his newfound love with a wartime nurse as he strives to become the hero he’s always imagined.

“It takes a moment to change history. It takes love to change lives.”

Directed by
Michael Bay
Written by
Randall Wallace, Randall Wallace Nm0908824
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
183 min
ActionDramaRomance

Synopsis

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's aggressive war efforts in the Pacific.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 31

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 Roger BartonShot by John SchwartzmanScored by Hans ZimmerDesigned by Nigel Phelps

Box Office

2001 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.2× 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

$449.2M

Budget$140.0M
Worldwide gross$449.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $198.5M — 44% of worldwide · International: $250.7M (56%)

Opening weekend: $59.1M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $89.3M — 45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,214 theaters

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Also known as

  • Pearl Harborde

Companies

ProductionTouchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films

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