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Released
1981 · FILM

Porky's

A band of misfit high‑school boys set out to lose their innocence at a raucous Everglades strip club, only to be duped and humiliated by its ruthless owner—forcing them into a daring quest for revenge before graduation ends their summer forever.

“Keep an eye out for the funniest movie about growing up ever made!”

Directed by
Bob Clark
Written by
Bob Clark
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
94 min
Comedy
Streaming on
  • Hoopla

Synopsis

In 1954 Florida, a group of high school boys travel to a strip club in the Everglades in hopes of losing their virginity. After being swindled out of their money and publicly humiliated by the club's owner and his sheriff brother, the boys plot their revenge.

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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 Stan ColeShot by Reginald H MorrisScored by Paul ZazaDesigned by Reuben Freed

Box Office

1981 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 40× 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

$160.0M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$160.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

19831,192 theaters
$8.8M($29.1M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Porky’sde

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