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Released
1977 · FILM

Slap Shot

A down‑on‑its‑luck minor‑league hockey team hires three ferocious enforcers to draw crowds, but their brutal tactics threaten to tear the club apart just as they need a win more than ever.

“Slap Shot out slaps... out swears... out laughs...”

Directed by
George Roy Hill
Written by
Nancy Dowd
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
123 min
ComedyDramaSport

Synopsis

To boost attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs the Hanson Brothers, three aggressive players whose role is to overpower the opposition.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Dede AllenShot by Victor J Kemper

Box Office

1977 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.7× 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

$28.0M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$28.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Schlappschussde
  • La Castagnefr
  • Colpo seccoit

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