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Released
1978 · FILM

The End

“Are there laughs before death?”

Directed by
Burt Reynolds
Written by
Jerry Belson
Runtime
100 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Wendell Lawson is diagnosed with a six‑month life expectancy. Seeking to avoid spending his final months waiting for death, he chooses to take control of the situation and recruits a delusional mental patient to assist him in committing suicide.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Donn CambernShot by Bobby ByrneScored by Paul WilliamsDesigned by Jan Scott

Box Office

1978 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 15× 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

$45.0M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$45.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $44.9M — 100% of worldwide · International: $83K (0%)

Also known as

  • Nobody Is Perfectde
  • Suicidez-moi docteurfr
  • La fine... della fineit

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