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Released
1984 · FILM

Rhinestone

She's bet everything, and we mean everything, that she can turn this New York cabbie into an overnight sensation. He has other things in mind. But he's never had a trainer like this one!

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Runtime
111 min
ComedyMusic

Synopsis

A prominent country singer, confident in her ability to transform anyone into a country star, sets out to prove her claim by taking a taxi driver under her wing. She enlists him as her protégé and prepares him for a major performance at a well-known country music club in New York City. Using her considerable skills and experience, she works to ready him for the big stage.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Stan ColeShot by Timothy GalfasScored by Dolly PartonDesigned by Robert F Boyle

Box Office

1984 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$21.4M

Budget$28.0M
Worldwide gross$21.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.5M 25% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $8.0M37% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,630 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Senkrechtstarterde
  • New York Cowboyfr
  • Nick lo scatenatoit

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