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Released
1999 · FILM

The Big Kahuna

Three charismatic salesmen scramble to seal a game‑changing deal with elusive mogul Dick Fuller at a convention, battling their own egos and mounting desperation as the future of their struggling company hangs in the balance.

Directed by
John Swanbeck
Written by
Roger Rueff
Runtime
90 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

Three salesmen employed by a firm that produces industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a high-profile individual named Dick Fuller to arrive. Their goal is to convince him to place an order that could help revive the company's declining sales.

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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 Peggy DavisShot by Anastas N MichosScored by Christopher YoungDesigned by Kalina Ivanov

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

$3.7M

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$3.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • The Big Kahuna - Ein dicker Fischde
  • El pez gordoes

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