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Released
1998 · FILM

The Players Club

“Sometimes you're the player. Sometimes you're played.”

Directed by
Ice Cube
Written by
Ice Cube
Runtime
104 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Starz

Synopsis

Diana, a single mother, faces the challenge of supporting her child while also working toward her college education. After meeting two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, she becomes convinced that stripping offers a path to quick financial relief.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Suzanne HinesShot by Malik Hassan SayeedScored by Frank FitzpatrickDesigned by Dina Lipton

Box Office

1998 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.2× 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

$23.3M

Budget$4.5M
Worldwide gross$23.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $23.0M — 99% of worldwide · International: $214K (1%)

Opening weekend: $5.9M — 26% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $8.2M — 35% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 593 theaters

Also known as

  • El club de las stripperses

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