Big Top Pee-wee
Hero. Lover. Legend.
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard.Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
- Director
- Randal Kleiser
- Worldwide
- $15M
Who's in it
Cast
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Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Big Top Pee-wee returned 0.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $20M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $15M
- Release date
- Jul 22, 1988
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- —
- Country
- United States of America
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