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The Dictator

Name: The Dictator
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2012-05-15
Duration: 83 min
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Anna Faris, Jason Mantzoukas, Sayed Badreya

Hollywood20121h 23mEnglishTop 45% of Hollywood budgets

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725th of 1,098 in Hollywood

Reported gross: 55
Return on budget: 45
Audience rating: 17
Momentum: 28

Out-grossed 55% of Hollywood releases with reported figures ($179M).
Returned 2.8× its budget, against an industry median of 3.1×.
Momentum in the 28th percentile.
Audience rating 6.3 from 6,670 votes, the 17th percentile.

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Cost: $65M
Took: $179M

Against a Hollywood median of 3.1×, so this one returned 0.9 times what a typical release there does.

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The picture

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Released: 15 May 2012
Runtime: 1h 23m
Language: English
Industry: Hollywood

Top billedAll 29 credits

Made by

Director: Larry Charles
Screenplay: Alec Berg, Sacha Baron Cohen, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer
Original Music Composer: Erran Baron Cohen
Director of Photography: Lawrence Sher
Producer: Anthony Hines, Sacha Baron Cohen, Scott Rudin, Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Todd Schulman

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