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Released
1988 · FILM

Shakedown

“In a city where everyone is for sale... They're the best money can't buy.”

Directed by
James Glickenhaus
Written by
James Glickenhaus
Runtime
93 min
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

A local drug dealer shoots a corrupt police officer in self‑defense, prompting a lawyer and an undercover cop who has gone rogue to cooperate in proving his innocence. Their investigation uncovers a network of greed and corruption, revealing that in a town where everything is for sale, any outcome is possible.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Paul FriedShot by Jennifer CoxScored by Jonathan EliasDesigned by Charles C Bennett

Box Office

1988 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.7× 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

$10.1M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$10.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.0M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.1M — 41% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,580 theaters

Also known as

  • Blue Jean Copde
  • Blue Jean Copes
  • Blue-Jean Copfr
  • Un poliziotto in blue jeansit

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