Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Ruby
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
1992 · FILM

Ruby

“If you don't know his story you don't know the whole story.”

Directed by
John Mackenzie
Written by
Stephen Davis
Runtime
110 min
BiographyCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Writers
Director

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

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 Richard TrevorShot by Phil MeheuxScored by John ScottDesigned by David Brisbin

Box Office

1992 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$919K

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$919K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $614K — 67% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $814K — 89% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 764 theaters

Also known as

  • Jack Ruby – Im Netz der Mafiade
  • Ruby - Im Netz der Mafiade
  • La conspiración de Dallases

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).

Help complete this page

We’re missing mpaa rating, logline. Sign in to add what you know.