Mystery Men
1999 American superhero comedy film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mystery Men is a 1999 American superhero comedy film directed by Kinka Usher (in his feature-length directorial debut), written by Neil Cuthbert, loosely based on Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot Comics, starring Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, William H. Macy, Greg Kinnear, Claire Forlani, Kel Mitchell, Paul Reubens, Janeane Garofalo, Wes Studi, Geoffrey Rush, Lena Olin, Eddie Izzard, and Tom Waits. The film details the story of a team of lesser superheroes with unimpressive powers who are required to save the day from a criminal genius when Champion City's resident superhero gets captured.
Mystery Men | |
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Directed by | Kinka Usher |
Written by | Neil Cuthbert |
Based on | Flaming Carrot Comics by Bob Burden |
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Starring | |
Cinematography | Stephen H. Burum |
Edited by | Conrad Buff |
Music by | Stephen Warbeck |
Production companies | Golar Productions Dark Horse Entertainment |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 120 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $68 million[2][3] |
Box office | $33.5 million[2] |
Mystery Men received generally positive reviews from critics, but was a box-office bomb, only making a little over $33 million worldwide against a $68 million budget.[2]