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Released
1998 · FILM

The Rugrats Movie

When a newborn brother’s cries send them on a rescue mission, toddler Tommy must brave a treacherous forest filled with escaped circus monkeys and a hungry wolf to bring the “broken” baby safely back home.

“An adventure for anyone who's ever worn diapers.”

Directed by
Igor Kovalyov, Norton Virgien
Written by
David N Weiss, J David Stem
Runtime
80 min
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

The Pickles family welcomes a new arrival, Dil, whose constant crying and need for attention quickly exhaust the other toddlers. Seeking to return the "broken" baby to the hospital, the gang embarks on a journey in a Reptar Wagon that inadvertently veers off course, leaving them stranded in a vast, dangerous forest. While facing off against escaped circus monkeys and a predatory wolf, Tommy must overcome his own resentment to protect his brother and make it back home.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 John BryantScored by Mark Mothersbaugh

Box Office

1998 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.3× 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

$100.5M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$100.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $27.3M — 27% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $36.8M — 37% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,782 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Rugrats Filmde
  • Rugrats - Der Filmde
  • Les Razmoket, le filmfr
  • Rugrats - Il filmit

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