Sundance: 20 Festival Hits -- That Tanked
As the independent film festival kicks off, we look back at some of the most notoriously buzzed about flicks in Utah -- and were DOA at the box office everywhere else
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In the Soup
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What Happened Was... | 1994 might have been the year that Sundance turned Clerks director Kevin Smith into an overnight sensation, but it was character actor Tom Noonan (
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The Spitfire Grill
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The Myth of Fingerprints | When Bart Freundlich's first feature premiered in Park City, the New York Times dubbed it ''one of the more commercially viable films emerging from the
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The House of Yes, Parker Posey | At the 1997 festival, Harvey Weinstein, at the time still the boss of Miramax, was so smitten with this black comedy about a disturbed young
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Next Stop Wonderland
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Slam
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Happy, Texas, William H. Macy
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Girlfight, Michelle Rodriguez
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Blue Car
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Tadpole, Sigourney Weaver
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Katie Holmes, Pieces of April
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Murderball | ThinkFilm's documentary about paraplegics who play rugby (or ''murderball'') in tricked-out wheelchairs was an early surprise hit at the 2005 fest. It won the Audience
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Grace Is Gone, John Cusack
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Son of Rambow | In all fairness, Harvey and his posse at The Weinstein Company weren't the only ones to go a little gaga at Sundance 2007. Paramount Vantage
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Joshua | Yep, even Fox Searchlight president Peter Rice, who oversaw the stunning success of Little Miss Sunshine , made a big boo-boo in 2007 when he
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Introducing the Dwights
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Rocket Science
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American Teen
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Hamlet 2
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