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Released
1999 · FILM

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

The Good, The Bad and The Stinky.

Directed by
Runtime
73 min
AdventureComedyFamily

Synopsis

Elmo treasures his fuzzy, well‑worn blue blanket above all else. When the blanket is drawn through a colorful, swirling tunnel into Grouchland—the unpleasant locale—Elmo embarks on an adventure to retrieve his prized possession.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Alan BaumgartenShot by Alan CasoScored by John DebneyDesigned by Alan Cassie

Box Office

1999 · 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

$11.7M

Budget$26.0M
Worldwide gross$11.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $11.7M 100% of worldwide · International: $17K (0%)

Opening weekend: $3.3M 28% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.0M34% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,210 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Abenteuer von Elmo im Grummellandde
  • Elmo im Grummellandde
  • Elmo en el país de los gruñoneses
  • Elmo au pays des grincheuxfr
  • Le avventure di Elmo in Brontolandiait

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