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Released
2002 · FILM

The Master of Disguise

Italian waiter Pistachio Disguisey must harness his supernatural talent for instant disguises to rescue his kidnapped patriarch and thwart a globe‑spanning heist, before the criminal mastermind claims the world’s most priceless treasures.

“1,000 faces...and not a single clue.”

Directed by
Perry Andelin Blake
Written by
Dana Carvey, Harris Goldberg
Runtime
80 min
AdventureComedyFamily

Synopsis

When the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped by Devlin Bowman in an attempt to steal the most precious treasures from around the world, Italian waiter Pistachio Disguisey uses his supernatural ability to disguise himself in an attempt to stop him.

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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 Peck PriorShot by Peter Lyons CollisterScored by Marc EllisDesigned by Alan Au

Box Office

2002 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.7× 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

$43.4M

Budget$16.0M
Worldwide gross$43.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $40.4M — 93% of worldwide · International: $3.0M (7%)

Opening weekend: $12.6M — 31% of its US run.

Peak 2,565 theaters

Also known as

  • Meister der Verwandlungde
  • Il maestro cambiafacciait

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