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Released
1986 · FILM

The Great Mouse Detective

Clever mouse detective Timothy and his brave partner Olivia race against the diabolical Professor Ratigan to rescue a kidnapped toymaker before London’s holiday season is shattered.

“London's crime-fighting ace on his most baffling case!”

Directed by
Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson
Written by
Peter Young, Vance Gerry
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
74 min
AdventureAnimationFamily
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's famed toymaker, the clever and courageous mouse duo of Olivia and Timothy must embark on a daring rescue mission to save him before the city's holiday season is ruined.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 27

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 Roy M Brewer JrScored by Henry Mancini

Box Office

1986 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.8× 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

$38.6M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$38.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $25.3M — 66% of worldwide · International: $13.3M (34%)

Opening weekend: $3.2M — 13% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.4M — 29% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,138 theaters

Re-release box office

19921,420 theaters
$16.5M($38.8M today)

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

Also known as

  • Basil, der grosse Mäusedetektivde
  • Basil, der große Mäusedetektivde
  • Basil the Great Mouse Detectiveen
  • Basil, détective privéfr
  • Basil l'investigatopoit

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