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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemember the freak out over the Chappaquiddick movie
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=chappaquiddick.htmI believe it cost $20,000,000.00 to make. The studio won't even recoup it's initial investment.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Demsrule86
(68,582 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Funny that it sunk. What a shame.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I wonder why there was no big stink/freakout over that.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)This event predates the Millennials and Generation X, as does any interest in the hoopla surrounding it. The brunt of the market was going to be boomers who were young adults in 1969.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I was looking for a post I made last week. The movie overperformed among seniors and underperformed among everybody else.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)I'm not a boomer and I never got worked up over the movie in anyway. It, as is the historical event, doesn't register on my radar.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Joe Kennedy lll will rise or fall on his own merits and not what happened in Chappaquiddick fifty years ago. Any sentient person knows the Kennedys are a mixed bag like most dynasties. "You have to take the bitter with the sweet."
herding cats
(19,564 posts)All this movie might have done is cement some sentiment amongst Boomers. Other then that it was a colossal waste of money.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,838 posts)It had "wait til Netflix" written all over it.