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Released
1993 · FILM

Who's the Man?

The First Hip-Hop Whodunnit!

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Runtime
85 min
ComedyDramaMystery

Synopsis

Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two incompetent barbers who decide to switch careers and become police officers. Their new roles prove problematic for their duty sergeant, Sgt. Cooper, who finds their lack of skill and professionalism frustrating and constantly hounds them. Nevertheless, the two manage to uncover a significant crime and go on to solve it in a manner uniquely their own.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 John GilroyShot by Adam John KimmelScored by Nic TenbroekDesigned by Ruth Ammon

Box Office

1993 · Box office

Grossed $11.3M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$11.3M

Worldwide gross$11.3M

Opening weekend: $4.5M 40% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.3M47% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 954 theaters

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