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Released
1996 · FILM

Set It Off

Four friends in Los Angeles turn desperate desperation into daring bank robberies, fighting corrupt cops and their own loyalties as they risk everything to secure a future for themselves and their families.

“It's about crime. It's about payback. It's about survival.”

Directed by
F Gary Gray
Written by
Takashi Bufford, Kate Lanier
Runtime
123 min
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Four Black women from an inner-city background, resolved to end their ongoing struggles, adopt a single rule: get what they want or die trying. In pursuit of this mindset, they reclaim control of their lives and carry out a series of bank heists.

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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 John CarterShot by Marc ReshovskyScored by Christopher YoungDesigned by Robb Wilson King

Box Office

1996 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.6× 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

$41.6M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$41.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $36.5M — 88% of worldwide · International: $5.1M (12%)

Opening weekend: $8.8M — 24% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $11.9M — 33% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,014 theaters

Also known as

  • Set It Offen
  • Le Prix à payerfr
  • Set It Off - Farsi notareit

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