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Released
1983 · FILM

Porky's II: The Next Day

A group of high school students at Angel Beach High fight to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare" as a strict teacher and a firebrand preacher conspire to shut it down, turning a simple school play into a raucous battle of wits and wills.

“If you thought the night before was funny, wait till you see the next day.”

Directed by
Bob Clark
Written by
Roger Swaybill, Alan Ormsby
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
98 min
Comedy
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

At Angel Beach High, students plan to present "An Evening With Shakespeare," but their initiative faces opposition from Miss Balbricker, who considers Shakespeare's works indecent. She seeks assistance from Reverend Bubba Flavel, a fervent religious figure, who mobilizes his group of followers to push the school to cancel the performance.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 32

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 Carl Zittrer

Box Office

1983 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.5× 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

$55.0M

Budget$6.5M
Worldwide gross$55.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $33.8M — 61% of worldwide · International: $21.2M (39%)

Opening weekend: $7.1M — 21% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $10.8M — 32% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,511 theaters

Also known as

  • Porky's II - Der Tag danachde
  • Porky's 2: al día siguientees
  • Porky's 2fr
  • Porky's II: il giorno dopoit

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