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Released
1989 · FILM

Pink Cadillac

A bounty hunter teams up with a fleeing wife whose husband's white supremacist group kidnapped her baby, forcing them to outrun dangerous extremists in a high-speed chase through the desert in a pink Cadillac.

It takes a real man to bring in a lady in a pink Cadillac.

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Written by
Runtime
122 min
ActionComedyCrime

Synopsis

A skip tracer assists a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by a group of ethno-nationalist thugs, of which her husband is a member, going by the name of Birthright. The baby is taken as leverage because, although initially oblivious, she has their money.

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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 Joel CoxShot by Jack N GreenScored by Steve DorffDesigned by Edward C Carfagno

Box Office

1989 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$12.1M

Budget$19.0M
Worldwide gross$12.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.3M 44% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.3M44% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,993 theaters

Also known as

  • El cádillac rosaes

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