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Released
1983 · FILM

Staying Alive

Tony Manero, the former disco king, battles self-doubt and a cutthroat Broadway world to reclaim his passion and prove he still has what it takes to dance.

“Tony Manero knows the old days are over. But nobody's gonna tell him he can't feel that good again.”

Directed by
Sylvester Stallone
Written by
Nik Cohn, Sylvester Stallone
Runtime
96 min
DramaMusicRomance

Synopsis

Five years have passed since Tony Manero's *Saturday Night Fever* first captivated audiences. Now, he is preparing to face his greatest challenge yet: establishing himself as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

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How many hands made this film

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 Peter E BergerShot by Nick McleanDesigned by Robert F Boyle

Box Office

1983 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.7× 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

$126.0M

Budget$22.0M
Worldwide gross$126.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $64.9M — 51% of worldwide · International: $61.1M (49%)

Opening weekend: $12.1M — 19% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $19.4M — 30% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,660 theaters

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  • Staying Alivede

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