This Is Spinal Tap
Prepare to crank those amps up to eleven.
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
- Director
- Rob Reiner
- Signature
- Craft · Humour · Tension
- Worldwide
- $6M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
25 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How This Is Spinal Tap actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
Where to watch
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
This Is Spinal Tap returned 2.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $3M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $6M
- Release date
- Mar 2, 1984
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English, Japanese
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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