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Released
1991 · FILM

Toy Soldiers

A band of clever boarding‑school teens must outwit a ruthless cartel leader’s armed son and his mercenaries to rescue their classmates and retake their campus before the authorities intervene.

They've Always been REBELS - TODAY, They Become HEROES.

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Runtime
112 min
ActionDramaThriller

Synopsis

When federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's violent son storms a prep school and takes the students hostage. In response, the students rebel against the armed intruders and attempt to reclaim their academy through any means necessary.

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How many hands made this film

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 Michael KahnShot by Thomas BurstynScored by Robert FolkDesigned by Chester Kaczenski

Box Office

1991 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× 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

$15.1M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$15.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $15.1M 100% of worldwide · International: $26K (0%)

Opening weekend: $4.2M 28% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $5.4M36% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,350 theaters

Also known as

  • Boy Soldiersde
  • L'École des hérosfr

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