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Released
1993 · FILM

Red Rock West

A down‑on‑his‑luck drifter in Wyoming is mistaken for a hired killer and seizes the payout, only to battle a ruthless local gang and the real assassin while trying to escape with his life.

“Where nothing is as it seems.”

Directed by
John Dahl
Written by
John Dahl, Rick Dahl
Runtime
98 min
CrimeDramaThriller

Synopsis

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne for the hitman he had hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Taking advantage of the misunderstanding, Mike collects the money and attempts to leave. However, complications arise during his escape, and the situation escalates further when he encounters the real hitman, Lyle.

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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 Scott ChestnutShot by Marc ReshovskyScored by William OlvisDesigned by Robert Pearson

Box Office

1993 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$2.5M

Budget$8.0M
Worldwide gross$2.5M
break-even (2.5×)

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  • Red Rock Westde

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