With the future of cinema – Avatar – out on the same day as St Trinian’s 2: The Legend Of Fritton’s Fricking Gold, we track down the flicks that had to do box office battle with other blockbuster big boys…
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY vs. TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY
In 10 Words: Action mayhem from the ultimate robo-hitman or supernatural sentimentality?
Date Released: 16 August 1991
Target Audiences: Action freaks, fledgling film theorists and middle-aged hankie packers…
Sample Critic Quotes: Truly “Think of this persuasively acted British romance as the thinking man’s Ghost.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
T2 “Nobody, I think, will complain that it doesn’t have enough action.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Potential Crossover: It’s one for him, one for her. Truly’s ‘dead man walking’ Alan Rickman is him out of Die Hard while sceptical girlfriends are intrigued by Linda Hamilton and subtext-tweaking themes of gender and violence in T2. Crossover action and a weepie for anyone with a beating heart…
Money Made: T2 $519,843,340
Truly $1,554,742 (US)
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