Hillary's fate
>DE PALMA IRAQ FLICK BOMBS
November 25, 2007, yahoonews.com
IT'S hard for Hollywood pacifists like Brian De Palma to capture the hearts and minds of America if Americans refuse to see their movies.
While the public is staying away in droves from “Rendition," “Lions for Lambs" and “In the Valley of Elah," audiences are really avoiding “Redacted," De Palma's picture about US soldiers who rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, then kill her and her family.
The message movie was produced by NBA Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Producer Cuban offered to sell the film back to De Palma at cost, but the director was too smart to go for that deal.
“Redacted" - which “could be the worst movie I've ever seen," said critic Michael Medved -took in just $25,628 in its opening weekend in 15 theaters, which means roughly 3,000 people saw it in the entire country.
“This, despite an A-list director, a huge wave of publicity, high praise in the New York Times, The New Yorker, left-leaning sites like Salon, etc. Not even people who presumably agree with the movie's anti-military thesis made the effort to see it. |
