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Released
1984 · FILM

The Last Starfighter

Teen gamer Alex Rogan must leave Earth and master real starfighter combat to stop an alien armada from conquering the galaxy.

“Alex Rogan was a small town boy with big dreams. But in his wildest dreams, he never suspected that tonight he would become The Last Starfighter.”

Directed by
Nick Castle
Written by
Jonathan R Betuel
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
101 min
ActionAdventureSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Video game expert Alex Rogan is transported to another planet after mastering the video game *The Last Starfighter*, only to discover that it was merely a test. He is recruited to join a team of elite Starfighters tasked with defending their world from an impending attack.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Carroll Timothy O MearaShot by King BaggotScored by Craig SafanDesigned by Ron Cobb

Box Office

1984 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.9× 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

$28.7M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$28.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $9.0M

Peak 1,287 theaters

Also known as

  • Starfightde
  • Giochi stellariit

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