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Released
1986 · FILM

Sweet Liberty

Michael Burgess wrote a book about the American Revolution. Now, Hollywood's come to his town to make a movie of it -- Plunging him into a summer of madness.

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Written by
Runtime
106 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.

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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 Michael EconomouShot by Frank TidyScored by Bruce BroughtonDesigned by Ben Edwards

Box Office

1986 · Box office

Grossed $14.2M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$14.2M

Worldwide gross$14.2M

Opening weekend: $3.2M 22% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.3M30% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,234 theaters

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