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RUSH HOUR Official Trailer [1998]

Rush Hour(1998)
Released
1998 · FILM

Rush Hour

When a former Hong Kong detective is called to Los Angeles to track down the kidnapped daughter of a Chinese ambassador, he must outwit a ruthless crime syndicate and navigate FBI politics before an international crisis erupts.

“The fastest hands in the East meet the biggest mouth in the West.”

Directed by
Brett Ratner
Written by
Ross Lamanna, Jim Kouf
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
97 min
ActionComedyCrime
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Hong Kong Inspector Lee is called to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, but the FBI, unwilling to accept outside assistance, assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to keep Lee from becoming involved in the case. Unwilling to remain on the sidelines, Lee and Carter instead form an unlikely partnership and take it upon themselves to investigate the case.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 70+ 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 Mark HelfrichShot by Adam GreenbergScored by Lalo SchifrinDesigned by Robb Wilson King

Box Office

1998 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.4× 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

$244.7M

Budget$33.0M
Worldwide gross$244.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $141.2M — 58% of worldwide · International: $103.5M (42%)

Opening weekend: $33.0M — 23% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $42.8M — 30% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,638 theaters

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Also known as

  • Rush Hourde
  • Rush Hour - Due mine vagantiit

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