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Released
1986 · FILM

The Color of Money

A washed-up pool hustler tries to mentor a young protégé while chasing one last big score, but old habits and new rivalries threaten to destroy them both.

“The Hustler isn't what he used to be. But he has the next best thing. A kid who is.”

Directed by
Martin Scorsese, Richard Feld
Written by
Richard Price, Walter Tevis
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
119 min
DramaSport
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Former pool hustler

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 182+ credited

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 Thelma SchoonmakerShot by Michael BallhausScored by Robbie RobertsonDesigned by Boris LevenSound by Skip LievsayCostumes by Richard BrunoStunts by Rick Lefevour

Box Office

1986 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.8× 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

$52.3M

Budget$13.8M
Worldwide gross$52.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.4M — 12% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $8.5M — 16% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 635 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Farbe des Geldesde
  • El color del dineroes
  • La Couleur de l'argentfr
  • Il colore dei soldiit

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