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Fermi #6 · Question 2

How long would it take to watch every Nicolas Cage movie back-to-back?

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Answer & explanation

The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.

Answer & explanation

Official answer

220

hours

How to estimate it

Fermi’s official “Napkin math”

Cage is famous for never stopping. He's been acting about 40 years, and lately a few films a year, so call it 120 movies. Each runs roughly 2 hours.

Acting since ~1982
~40 yrs
Films per year
~3
120 films × 2 hrs
≈ 240 hrs

Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.

Source calculation & reference
Feature films (actor credits)
~120
Average runtime
~110 minutes
120 × 110 min
≈ 13,200 minutes
÷ 60
≈ 220 hours (≈ 9 days)

Reference cited by Fermi: IMDb runtimes

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