Child's Play | |
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Directed by | Tom Holland |
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Story by | Don Mancini |
Produced by | David Kirschner |
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Cinematography | Bill Butler |
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Music by | Joe Renzetti |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $9–13 million[1][2] |
Box office | $44.2 million[3] |
Child's Play is a 1988 American supernatural slasher film[4][5][6] directed by Tom Holland, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Don Mancini and John Lafia, and a story by Mancini.[7] The film stars Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon with Brad Dourif as Chucky. Its plot follows a widowed mother who gives a doll to her son, unaware that the doll is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
Child's Play was released in the United States on November 9, 1988, by MGM/UA Communications Co. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed more than $44 million against a production budget of $9 million.[8][9][2] Along with the film gaining a 1980s cult following,[10] the box office success also spawned a media franchise that includes a series of six sequels, merchandise, comic books, a reboot, and a television series. The original Child's Play film was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,[11] although the rights to the series were sold to Universal Pictures in 1990.[12] MGM retained the rights to the original film and also distributed the reboot in 2019.
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