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The Goonies(1985)
Released
1985 · FILM

The Goonies

A band of misfit kids discovers an ancient pirate map and must outwit ruthless treasure hunters to find the hidden loot before their homes are seized by a greedy developer.

“They call themselves "The Goonies." The secret caves. The old lighthouse. The lost map. The treacherous traps. The hidden adventure. And Sloth… Join the adventure.”

Directed by
Richard Donner
Written by
Chris Columbus, Steven Spielberg
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
114 min
AdventureComedyFamily
Streaming on
  • Fubo

Synopsis

Mikey Walsh, a young teenager, and his friends embark on a quest to locate the pirate known as One-Eyed Willie.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 47+ 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 Michael KahnShot by Nick McleanScored by Dave GrusinDesigned by J Michael Riva

Box Office

1985 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.7× 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

$69.6M

Budget$19.0M
Worldwide gross$69.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $61.4M — 88% of worldwide · International: $8.3M (12%)

Opening weekend: $9.1M — 15% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $13.7M — 22% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,705 theaters

Re-release box office

2020457 theaters
$825K($1.1M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Die Gooniesde
  • Los Goonieses
  • Les Gooniesfr
  • I Gooniesit

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