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Released
1960 · FILM

Where the Boys Are

“The hilarious inside story of those rip-roaring spring vacations!”

Directed by
Henry Levin
Written by
George Wells, Glendon Swarthout
Runtime
99 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Fredric SteinkampShot by Robert J BronnerScored by George Stoll

Box Office

1960 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.8× 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

$3.5M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$3.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Dazu... gehören zweide
  • Playas de Floridaes
  • Ces folles de filles d'Èvefr
  • La spiaggia del desiderioit

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