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Released
1982 · FILM

The Pirate Movie

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Runtime
105 min
AdventureComedyMusical

Synopsis

Mabel, a contemporary teenager, is left behind by her friends during a boat trip. She attempts to catch up but is rendered unconscious on an island, where she experiences a dream that includes pirates, sisters, a modern major‑general, romance and adventure.

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How many hands made this film

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 Ken ZemkeShot by Robin CoppingScored by Arthur SullivanDesigned by Tony Woollard

Box Office

1982 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× 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

$9.0M

Budget$5.9M
Worldwide gross$9.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $8.0M 89% of worldwide · International: $1.0M (11%)

Opening weekend: $2.5M 32% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $4.1M52% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 757 theaters

Also known as

  • Pirate Moviede
  • Il film piratait

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