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Released
2014 · FILM

The Nut Job

A disgruntled park squirrel exiled to the big city must outwit urban dangers and rally his fellow critters to secure enough nuts from a shady store before winter starves them all.

No nuts, no glory.

Directed by
Runtime
85 min
AdventureAnimationComedy
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A grumpy, independent squirrel is exiled from his park and must navigate the challenges of city life. Fortunately, he discovers a potential solution to his predicament—Maury's Nut Store—just as the park community prepares for winter.

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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 Paul HunterScored by Paul Intson

Box Office

2014 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 2.9× 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

$120.9M

Budget$42.0M
Worldwide gross$120.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $64.3M 53% of worldwide · International: $56.6M (47%)

Opening weekend: $25.7M 40% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Peak 3,427 theaters

Also known as

  • Operation Nussknackerde
  • Operation: Nussknacker - Auf die Nüsse, fertig, los!de
  • Opération Casse-noisettefr
  • Nut Job - Operazione nocciolineit

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