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Released
1991 · FILM

Suburban Commando

“The Wilcoxes were having some problems around the neighborhood... until the ultimate security system landed in their backyard.”

Directed by
Burt Kennedy
Written by
Frank A Cappello
Runtime
88 min
ActionComedySci-Fi

Synopsis

Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero dedicated to righting wrongs. After a battle with an interstellar threat, his ship is damaged and requires time to recharge, forcing him to take refuge on Earth. Although he leaves his power suit behind, he still finds himself compelled to intervene against injustices, confronting issues such as reckless drivers, obnoxious paperboys, and muggers.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Terry StokesShot by Bernd HeinlScored by David Michael FrankDesigned by Ivo Cristante

Box Office

1991 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$8.0M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$8.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $6.9M — 87% of worldwide · International: $1.1M (13%)

Opening weekend: $1.9M — 28% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $2.9M — 42% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 899 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Ritter aus dem Allde
  • Cose dell'altro mondoit

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