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Released
1990 · FILM

The Rescuers Down Under

When a notorious poacher kidnaps a boy who knows the location of a rare golden eagle, the daring Rescue Aid Society springs into action, racing across the Australian Outback to save him and protect the endangered bird.

“Hang on for the most thrilling ride of your life!”

Directed by
Hendel Butoy, Mike Gabriel
Written by
Jim Cox, Karey Kirkpatrick
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
77 min
AdventureAnimationComedy
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

A lawless poacher seeks to capture a majestic and rare golden eagle, kidnapping a boy who knows its location. Fortunately, the Rescue Aid Society is on the case.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 34

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 Michael KellyScored by Bruce Broughton

Box Office

1990 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× 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

$47.4M

Budget$38.0M
Worldwide gross$47.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $27.9M — 59% of worldwide · International: $19.5M (41%)

Opening weekend: $3.5M — 13% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.8M — 17% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,230 theaters

Also known as

  • Bernard und Bianca im Känguruhland - Die Mäusepolizei IIde
  • Bernard und Bianca im Kängurulandde
  • Bernard et Bianca au pays des kangourousfr
  • Bianca e Bernie nella terra dei canguriit

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