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Released
2010 · FILM

Tooth Fairy

A tough‑talking minor‑league hockey enforcer is forced to serve a community service sentence as the real Tooth Fairy—tutu and all—and must navigate magical mischief and skeptical kids to earn his freedom before the week’s up.

You can't handle the tooth.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
101 min
ComedyFamilyFantasy

Synopsis

Derek Thompson, a minor-league hockey player known for frequently knocking out his opponents' teeth during games, disillusions a fan and is sentenced to spend a week as a real-life tooth fairy, required to wear a tutu and fulfill the role in earnest. During this time, Derek begins to rediscover his childhood aspirations.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

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 David FinferShot by David TattersallScored by George S ClintonDesigned by Marcia Hinds

Box Office

2010 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.3× 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

$112.5M

Budget$48.0M
Worldwide gross$112.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $60.0M 53% of worldwide · International: $52.4M (47%)

Opening weekend: $14.0M 23% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $16.1M27% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,344 theaters

Also known as

  • Zahnfee auf Bewährungde
  • Rompedienteses
  • Fée malgré luifr
  • L'acchiappadentiit

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