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1984 · FILM

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Captain Kirk must steal back the decommissioned Enterprise and race against hostile Klingons to reunite Spock’s living essence with his body before it’s lost forever.

“A dying planet. A fight for life. The search for Spock.”

Directed by
Leonard Nimoy, John Hockridge
Written by
Harve Bennett, Gene Roddenberry
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
105 min
ActionAdventureSci-Fi

Synopsis

A surprise visit from Spock's father reveals a startling truth: McCoy is keeping Spock's living essence.

Credits

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 194+ credited

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 Robert F ShugrueShot by Charles CorrellScored by James HornerSound by Cecelia Hall

Box Office

1984 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.8× 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

$87.0M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$87.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $76.5M — 88% of worldwide · International: $10.5M (12%)

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Also known as

  • Star Trek III - Auf der Suche nach Mr. Spockde
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spocken
  • Star Trek III: en busca de Spockes
  • Star Trek 3 : À la recherche de Spockfr
  • Star Trek III: Alla ricerca di Spockit
  • (Bulgarian)Star Trek III: В търсене на Спок
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • CanadaJun 1, 1984
  • United StatesJun 1, 1984
  • JapanJun 30, 1984
  • United KingdomJul 27, 1984
  • IrelandJul 27, 1984

Production & Distribution

Production companies
Paramount PicturesCinema Group Ventures
Distributors
Paramount DistributionUnited International Pictures (UIP)
Special effectsIndustrial Light & Magic (ILM), Movie Magic, The Burman Studio
Other companiesCapitol Studios, Dolby Stereo, Glen Glenn Sound Company, Hollywood Studio Symphony, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)

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