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Released
1979 · FILM

The Muppet Movie

Kermit the Frog leaves his swamp to chase a Hollywood dream, recruiting an eccentric troupe of friends along the way while evading a ruthless frog‑leg restaurateur determined to derail his rise to stardom.

“More entertaining than humanly possible!”

Directed by
James Frawley
Written by
Jerry Juhl, Jack Burns
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
95 min
AdventureComedyFamily

Synopsis

The Muppets come together to watch the premiere of their newly completed big-budget film about the rich and famous. The story follows Kermit the Frog as a talent agent convinces him to leave the swamp and pursue a career in Hollywood. Along the way, he meets a bear, a pig, a "whatever" (who become his future Muppet crew), and encounters several celebrity guest stars, all while being pursued by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 92+ 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 Christopher GreenburyShot by Isidore MankofskyScored by Kenny AscherDesigned by Joel Schiller

Box Office

1979 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.4× 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

$75.2M

Budget$8.0M
Worldwide gross$75.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $65.2M — 87% of worldwide · International: $10.0M (13%)

Re-release box office

2019727 theaters
$610K($790K today)

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

Also known as

  • Muppet Moviede
  • Les Muppets, le filmfr
  • Tutti a Hollywood con i Muppetit

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