Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Revenge of the Nerds
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
1984 · FILM

Revenge of the Nerds

Socially awkward college outcasts band together to launch their own fraternity, fighting the dominant Alpha Beta house’s relentless sabotage to claim a place on campus.

“They've been laughed at, picked on and put down. But now it's time for the odd to get even!”

Directed by
Jeff Kanew, James M Freitag
Written by
Tim Metcalfe, Miguel Tejada Flores
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
90 min
Comedy
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

At Adams College, the Alpha Beta fraternity dominates campus life from their prestigious house. When a group of socially awkward misfits attempts to join the Greek system, they are rejected by every fraternity on campus. Determined to support their outcast peers, they decide to start their own fraternity. However, their new venture quickly becomes a conflict as the Alpha Betas seek to eliminate their unexpected rivals.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Writers
Directors

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 191+ 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 Alan BalsamShot by King BaggotScored by Thomas NewmanDesigned by James L SchoppeSound by Michael O CorriganStunts by Terry James

Box Office

1984 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.8× 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

$40.9M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$40.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $40.9M — 100% of worldwide · International: $26K (0%)

Opening weekend: $1.5M — 4% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.5M — 6% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 364 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Rache der Eierköpfede
  • Les Tronchesfr
  • La rivincita dei nerdsit

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).