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Released
1982 · FILM

Things Are Tough All Over

The original HIGH Rollers hit the strip!

Runtime
90 min
ActionComedy

Synopsis

Cheech and Chong are hired by Slyman and Habib to drive a limousine to Las Vegas that contains $5 million hidden in the front seat. En route, they dismantle the car piece by piece, including the seven‑figure front seat. Afterward, Slyman and Habib pursue them, threatening death and torture.

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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 Dennis DolanShot by Bobby ByrneScored by Gaye DelormeDesigned by Richard Sawyer

Box Office

1982 · Box office

Grossed $21.1M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$21.1M

Worldwide gross$21.1M

Opening weekend: $5.9M 28% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $9.7M46% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,516 theaters

Also known as

  • Cheech & Chong im Dauerstressde

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