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Released
2005 · FILM

Racing Stripes

A good‑hearted zebra raised on a Kentucky farm dreams of winning a prestigious horse race, and must defy his obvious differences and outrun skeptics to claim victory alongside the young girl who believes in him.

“Cheer 'til you're horse!”

Directed by
Frederik Du Chau
Written by
David Schmidt, Steven P Wegner
Runtime
102 min
AdventureComedyDrama

Synopsis

Stripes, a good-hearted zebra who has spent his life on a Kentucky farm, believes he is a debonair thoroughbred. When he is confronted with the truth that his stark stripes mark him as different, he resolves to race regardless. With the support of the young girl who raised him, he may just find success in the winner's circle.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

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 Tom FinanShot by David EggbyScored by Mark IshamDesigned by Wolf Kroeger

Box Office

2005 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.0× 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

$90.8M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$90.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $49.8M — 55% of worldwide · International: $41.0M (45%)

Opening weekend: $13.9M — 28% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $20.3M — 41% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,185 theaters

Also known as

  • Im Rennstall ist das Zebra los!de
  • Stripes - Ein Zebra im Rennstallde
  • Zig Zag, l'étalon zébréfr
  • Striscia, una zebra alla riscossait

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