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Released
1986 · FILM

Raw Deal

Ex‑FBI agent turned small‑town sheriff Mark Kaminsky is offered a shot at redemption if he infiltrates a ruthless mob boss’s crew and brings the criminal empire down from within.

The system gave him a raw deal. Nobody gives him a raw deal.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
106 min
ActionCrimeThriller
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Mark Kaminsky is expelled from the FBI due to his harsh handling of a suspect. He later becomes the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Director Harry Shannon, whose son was killed by a mobster named Patrovina, recruits Kaminsky for a personal mission, offering him the possibility of being reinstated into the FBI if Patrovina is captured. To achieve this, Kaminsky must go undercover and infiltrate Patrovina's gang.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Anne V CoatesShot by Alex ThomsonScored by Chris BoardmanDesigned by Giorgio Postiglione

Box Office

1986 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.9× 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

$16.2M

Budget$8.5M
Worldwide gross$16.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.4M 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.5M46% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,731 theaters

Also known as

  • Der City Haide
  • Triple Identiyen
  • Le Contratfr
  • Codice Magnumit

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