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Released
2009 · FILM

The Maiden Heist

Three aging museum security guards, tired of guarding art they've grown to love, pull off a hilarious heist to recover their favorite pieces after they're shipped away.

“They're not bad guys, just bad thieves.”

Directed by
Peter Hewitt
Written by
Michael Lesieur
Runtime
91 min
ComedyCrime

Synopsis

A comedy follows three museum security guards who grow fond of the artworks under their watch and hatch a scheme to reclaim them after the pieces are relocated to a different museum.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Carole Kravetz AykanianShot by Ueli SteigerScored by Rupert Gregson WilliamsDesigned by Chris Roope

Box Office

2009 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× 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

$96K

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$96K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Bruchreifde
  • Drei verliebte Diebede
  • The Heisten
  • Un Plan d'enferfr
  • The Maiden Heist - Colpo grosso al museoit

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