The Terminator
“Your future is in its hands.”
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
Genres
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Studio
Hemdale
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Terminator performed
Budget
$6.4M
Worldwide Gross
$78.4M
Gross Profit
$72.0M
Return
12.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$10M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Terminator
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Terminator
Kyle Reese
Michael Biehn
Kyle Reese
Sarah Connor
Linda Hamilton
Sarah Connor
Traxler
Paul Winfield
Traxler
Vukovich
Lance Henriksen
Vukovich
Matt
Rick Rossovich
Matt
Ginger
Bess Motta
Ginger
Silberman
Earl Boen
Silberman
Pawnshop Clerk
Dick Miller
Pawnshop Clerk
Nancy
Shawn Schepps
Nancy
Desk Sergeant
Bruce M. Kerner
Desk Sergeant
Future Terminator
Franco Columbu
Future Terminator
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