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Released
1986 · FILM

SpaceCamp

An astronaut and four teenage campers accidentally blast into space during a NASA engine test and must work together to survive and find their way back to Earth.

“The stars belong to a new generation.”

Directed by
Harry Winer
Written by
Clifford Green, Casey T Mitchell
Runtime
107 min
AdventureFamilySci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut preparing for her first mission to space, co-runs a summer camp for teenagers with her husband, Zach, who works for NASA. During an engine test one night, Andie and four teenage campers are unintentionally launched into space. The group, which includes Kathryn, a pilot-in-training, and Tish, a forgetful yet highly perceptive camper with an exceptional memory, must collaborate to manage the spacecraft and find a way back home.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Tim BoardShot by William A FrakerScored by John WilliamsDesigned by Richard Macdonald

Box Office

1986 · 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

$9.7M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$9.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.9M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.2M — 43% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 979 theaters

Also known as

  • Ferien im Weltraumde
  • Space Campde
  • Cap sur les étoilesfr
  • Space Camp - Gravità zeroit

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