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Released
1985 · FILM

Stick

“It's his last chance. And he's going to fight for it.”

Directed by
Burt Reynolds
Written by
Elmore Leonard, Joseph Stinson
Runtime
109 min
ActionCrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rainy during a drug deal. To avoid getting killed by the same people, who work for mobster Chucky, Stick gets a job as a chauffeur for millionaire Barry Braham and lies low. As he gets used to his new routine, Stick woos Barry's financial consultant, Kyle McClaren, but must fight back when Chucky's men come after him.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 William D GordeanShot by Nick McleanScored by Joseph ConlanDesigned by James Shanahan

Box Office

1985 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$8.5M

Budget$22.0M
Worldwide gross$8.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.4M — 40% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.4M — 52% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,173 theaters

Also known as

  • Sie nannten ihn Stickde
  • Le Justicier de Miamifr
  • Scherzare col fuocoit

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