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Released
1984 · FILM

Racing with the Moon

“It was 1943. And young men were counting the days before they went off to war...”

Directed by
Richard Benjamin
Written by
Steve Kloves
Runtime
108 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

In a small coastal town in California, Henry and Nicky are friends from working-class families who are soon to be drafted for service in World War II. Henry becomes interested in Caddie Winger, a new arrival he assumes is wealthy. Nicky, who is playful and undisciplined, gets into trouble, drawing Henry and Caddie into his affairs and putting a strain on both his friendship with Henry and the budding relationship between Henry and Caddie.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Jacqueline CambasShot by John BaileyScored by Dave GrusinDesigned by David L Snyder

Box Office

1984 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$6.0M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$6.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $6.0M — 100% of worldwide · International: $10 (0%)

Opening weekend: $1.8M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $2.4M — 39% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 389 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Zeit verrinnt - Die Navy ruftde
  • Racing with the Moonen
  • Les Moissons du printempsfr
  • In gara con la lunait

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