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The film ends with an adapted version of the "He's Got Balls" commercial originally produced by Buck. In it, the entire Tigers and
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earned $ 52.8 million in the U.S. and Canada, and $ 3.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total $ 56.1 million, against a production budget of $ 45 million.
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