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Released
2007 · FILM

The Comebacks

A down-on-his-luck coach with a knack for disaster takes charge of a ragtag college football team, leading them on a hilariously chaotic path to glory while rediscovering his own purpose.

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Runtime
107 min
ComedySport

Synopsis

Coach Lambeau Fields, a man with little luck, takes on a group of unconventional college athletes and leads them toward a football championship. Through this journey, he comes to realize his own worth, mends his relationships with family and friends, and learns the true meaning of teamwork.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

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 Edward BellShot by Anthony B RichmondScored by Christopher LennertzDesigned by Marc Fisichella

Box Office

2007 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$13.5M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$13.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $6.6M

Peak 2,812 theaters

Also known as

  • Los futboleroses
  • Il peggior allenatore del mondoit

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