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Released
2004 · FILM

Welcome to Mooseport

A former U.S. president returns to his quirky Maine hometown to run for mayor, only to find that small-town politics are just as cutthroat as the national stage.

“This town isn't small enough for the both of them.”

Directed by
Donald Petrie
Written by
Doug Richardson, Tom Schulman
Runtime
110 min
ComedyRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A former U.S. president, having completed two terms in office, returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine, and decides to run for mayor, facing competition from another local candidate.

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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 Debra Neil FisherShot by Victor HammerScored by John DebneyDesigned by David Chapman

Box Office

2004 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$14.0M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$14.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.8M — 47% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $8.3M — 57% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,868 theaters

Also known as

  • Willkommen in Mooseportde
  • Bienvenido a Mooseportes
  • Bienvenue à Mooseportfr
  • Due candidati per una poltronait

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