Pirates (1986 film)

Pirates
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRoman Polanski
Written byGérard Brach
John Brownjohn
Roman Polanski
Produced byTarak Ben Ammar
Starring
CinematographyWitold Sobocinski
Edited byHervé de Luze
William Reynolds
Music byPhilippe Sarde
Production
companies
Cathargo Films
Accent-Cominco
Distributed byCannon Film Distributing (US)
Release date
  • 8 May 1986 (1986-05-08) (Cannes)
Running time
112 minutes[1]
CountriesFrance
Tunisia
Poland
LanguagesEnglish
French
Spanish
Budget$40 million[2][3]
Box office$1,641,825 (US)[2]
$6,341,825 (Worldwide)[3]

Pirates is a 1986 adventure comedy film written by Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn and Roman Polanski, and directed by Polanski. It was inspired by Polanski's love of classic pirate films, as well as Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. Polanski began planning the film in 1976 as a follow-up to Chinatown, but production was delayed several times due to lack of funding and Polanski's fleeing the United States to avoid sentencing for his confessed rape of a minor.

It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival,[4] and was a box-office bomb, although the costume design was nominated for an Academy Award.

  1. ^ "PIRATES (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. 3 October 1986. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Gross was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b "Pirates - Box Office Data, DVD Sales, Movie News, Cast Information - The Numbers". The Numbers. Nash Information Services. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  4. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Pirates". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 18 July 2009.