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Released
1983 · FILM

Strange Brew

Bob and Doug McKenzie team up with orphaned brewer Pam to wrest control of her late father’s legendary brewery, but they must outwit the mysterious Brewmeister Smith while fending off two ruthless gangs of hockey players who will stop at nothing to keep them down.

“Something funny is brewing at Elsinore Castle...”

Directed by
Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas
Written by
Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas
Runtime
90 min
ComedyCrimeSci-Fi

Synopsis

Something is amiss at the Elsinore Brewery as Bob and Doug McKenzie, the characters from *SCTV*, assist the orphan Pam in reclaiming the brewery that was founded by her recently deceased father. To succeed, they must challenge the enigmatic Brewmeister Smith and overcome two rival teams of aggressive hockey players.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Patrick McmahonShot by Steven PosterScored by Charles FoxDesigned by David L Snyder

Box Office

1983 · 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

$1.9M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$1.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Zwei Superflaschen räumen aufde
  • Strange Brewen
  • La strana vogliait

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