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Released
1995 · FILM

The Pebble and the Penguin

“The adventure of a lifetime begins with one small pebble.”

Written by
Rachel Koretsky, Stephen Whitestone
Runtime
74 min
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

Hubie is a shy bachelor penguin with a fondness for a female named Marina. According to an ancient penguin tradition, males must present a pebble to their chosen mate as a gesture before forming a lifelong bond. Hubie discovers an impressive stone and is prepared to give it to Marina, but his rival, Drake, intervenes by throwing him into the turbulent sea, causing Hubie to be carried away.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Nikki MossScored by Mark WattersDesigned by David Goetz

Box Office

1995 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$4.0M

Budget$28.0M
Worldwide gross$4.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.1M — 28% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $2.2M — 56% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,315 theaters

Also known as

  • Hubi, der Pinguinde
  • Hubi, el pingüinoes
  • Youbi, le petit pingouinfr
  • Hubie all'inseguimento della pietra verdeit

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