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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

1991 • PG-13 • 1h 25m • Comedy, Crime • Paramount Pictures

If you see only one movie this year... you ought to get out more often.

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Box office summary

Opening Weekend

$20.8M

3-day opening

Domestic Total

$86.9M

Final

Domestic Legs4.2x

Budget$23M

1991 Rank#10

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Cast & Crew

Full Zucker filmography

David Zucker Director

Leslie Nielsen Starring

Priscilla Presley

Priscilla Presley Starring

George Kennedy Starring

ScreenplayDavid Zucker, Pat Proft Produced byRobert K. Weiss CinematographyRobert M. Stevens MusicIra Newborn StudioParamount Pictures SeriesThe Naked Gun

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Jun 28-30 1 $20.8M — 2,378 $8,754 $20.8M

2 Jul 5-7 2 $11.6M −44.1% 2,378 $4,890 $43.2M

3 Jul 12-14 5 $7.3M −37.0% 2,307 $3,176 $56.0M

4 Jul 19-21 8 $5.5M −24.4% 2,191 $2,527 $65.3M

5 Jul 26-28 9 $4.0M −27.4% 1,851 $2,173 $72.5M

16 Oct 11-13 20 $413.2K — 558 $741 $85.7M

Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record

Weekend grossWk 5 · $4.0M

$20.8M

$11.6M

$7.3M

$5.5M

$4.0M

W1W2W3W4W5

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 5 · −27.4%

−44.1%

W1→2

−37.0%

W2→3

−24.4%

W3→4

−27.4%

W4→5

Steepest −44.1%Best hold −24.4%

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