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Released
2002 · FILM

Slackers

A nerdy college student desperate to win the affection of his crush discovers a trio of smooth‑talking slacker friends who have been cheating their way through school, and he blackmails them into helping him—only to risk having their elaborate deceptions exposed and his own reputation shattered.

“When all else fails... cheat.”

Directed by
Dewey Nicks
Written by
David H Steinberg
Runtime
86 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

Dave, Sam, and Jeff are on the verge of graduating from Holden University with honors in lying, cheating, and scheming. The three roommates have successfully navigated their four years of college through deception and manipulation, earning their status as big men on campus. During final exams, they are on the brink of being exposed by the most unlikely student in the school: Cool Ethan, an ambitious nerd with a bad crush. When Ethan enters their lives, the carefully constructed lies of Dave, Sam, and Jeff begin to unravel.

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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 Tara TimponeShot by James R BagdonasScored by Joey AltrudaDesigned by William Arnold

Box Office

2002 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$6.4M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$6.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $3.7M

Peak 1,893 theaters

Also known as

  • Slackers - Ran an die Bräutede

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