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Released
1987 · FILM

Russkies

Sometimes the worst of enemies can become the best of friends.

Directed by
Runtime
99 min
Drama

Synopsis

A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friendly and will bring them no danger and thus go against the ideas of their parents, as well as the government.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Antony GibbsShot by Reed SmootScored by James Newton HowardDesigned by Linda Pearl

Box Office

1987 · Box office

Grossed $2.2M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$2.2M

Worldwide gross$2.2M

Opening weekend: $1.0M 47% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.4M62% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 604 theaters

Also known as

  • Mamma ho acchiappato un russoit

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