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Released
2001 · FILM

Recess: School's Out

When T.J. and the Recess gang discover a plot to end summer vacation forever, they team up with unlikely allies to stop a vengeful ex-principal from freezing the world in eternal winter.

“Saving the world one playground at a time.”

Directed by
Chuck Sheetz
Written by
Paul Germain, Joe Ansolabehere
Runtime
82 min
AdventureAnimationComedy
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

As the school year comes to an end, T.J. Detweiler looks forward to summer. However, boredom quickly sets in when his friends leave for camp—until T.J. discovers an evil plot to eliminate summer vacation. A former principal, Dr. Benedict, plans to use a laser beam to alter the weather and create permanent winter. Faced with the threat of year-round school, T.J. gathers the RECESS gang and teams up with unexpected allies—Miss Finster and Principal Prickly—in a nonstop adventure to save everyone.

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A crew of 57+ credited

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 Tony MizgalskiScored by Denis M Hannigan

Box Office

2001 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.4× 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

$44.5M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$44.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $36.7M — 83% of worldwide · International: $7.8M (17%)

Opening weekend: $10.1M — 27% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $15.8M — 43% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,624 theaters

Also known as

  • Disneys Große Pause: Die geheime Missionde
  • La Cour de récré : Vive les vacances !fr
  • Ricreazione - La scuola è finitait

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