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Released
1987 · FILM

The Brave Little Toaster

A plucky band of sentient appliances embarks on an epic cross‑country trek to reunite with the child who once loved them, braving treacherous highways, hostile machines and their own fading power before they’re forever discarded.

“Plug into the adventure!”

Directed by
Jerry Rees
Written by
Thomas M Disch, Jerry Rees
Runtime
90 min
AdventureAnimationFamily

Synopsis

A group of old appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight-year-old owner.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

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 Donald W ErnstScored by David Newman

Box Office

1987 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.0× 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

$2.3M

Budget$2.3M
Worldwide gross$2.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der tapfere kleine Toasterde
  • Der tapfere kleine Toaster - Fünf Freunde und ihr grösstes Abenteuerde
  • Der tapfere kleine Toaster - Fünf Freunde und ihr grösstes Abenteuer - DvDde
  • La tostadora valientees
  • Le Petit Grille-pain courageuxfr
  • Le avventure del piccolo tostapaneit

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