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Released
1986 · FILM

Tough Guys

“They're Out To Teach A New World Some Old Tricks.”

Directed by
Jeff Kanew
Written by
James Orr, Jim Cruickshank
Runtime
104 min
ComedyCrime
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two aging train robbers who committed a robbery in 1956 and spent thirty years in prison. After their release, they struggle to adapt to life outside jail but soon discover that their skills are still sharp when they inadvertently prevent a bank robbery while collecting their prison checks.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Kaja FehrShot by King BaggotScored by James Newton HowardDesigned by Todd Hallowell

Box Office

1986 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.1× 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

$21.5M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$21.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.6M — 21% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $5.9M — 28% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 856 theaters

Also known as

  • Archie und Harry - Sie können's nicht lassende
  • Otra ciudad, otra leyes
  • Coup doublefr
  • Due tipi incorreggibiliit

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