Early December is a weird time for Hollywood. On one hand, it's the middle of the holiday movie season. On the other, it's the middle of the holiday movie season, which means we're a couple of weeks out from the Christmas week bonanza. This makes the studios nervous, because they don't want a potential blockbuster to be played out by then, but they don't want their big titles to get lost in a glut of releases, either. So we'll see some big blockbusters (and wannabe blockbusters) this week, but not as many as you'd think for this time of year. On the other hand, limited release Oscar contenders abound.
One Year Ago--December 6, 2019:
#1 Movie:
Frozen II--$35.2 million
New Wide Releases:
Playmobil: The Movie--14/$0.7 million/$1.1 million/217/18%/25--German toy company Playmobil has always had a rivalry with Danish toy company Lego, so when the latter's 100-minute commercial became one of the biggest critical and commercial hits of 2014, Playmobil decided they should get their own movie, too. Of course, getting the movie turned out to be the easy part. The plotline, which bore a resemblance to that of The Lego Movie, had Anya Taylor-Joy and her little brother (Gabriel Bateman) getting transported to the Playmobil world, where they have to fight an evil emperor (Adam Lambert) with the help of a food truck driver (Jim Gaffigan) and a secret agent (Daniel Radcliffe). Kenan Thompson voiced a pirate and Meghan Trainor played a fairy godmother. This met with complete indifference, with one of the worst openings for a film playing in over 2,000 theaters, and ending up as the lowest-grossing wide-release film of 2019.
Director: Lino DeSalvo
New Limited Releases:
Portrait of a Lady on Fire--$3.8 million/157/98%/95--Arguably 2019's most acclaimed foreign film outside of Parasite, this French drama was about the growing attraction between a female artist (Noemie Merlant) and the reluctant bride (Adele Haenel) she is hired to paint in the middle of the 18th century, when lesbian romance was extremely taboo. The drama, which won the Screenplay prize at Cannes, did decent business in the US, but probably not as much as its acclaim would have suggested.
Director: Celine Sciamma
Expanding:
Dark Waters--6/$4 million
Five Years Ago--December 4, 2015:
#1 Movie:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2--$18.9 million
New Wide Releases:
Krampus--2/$16.3 million/$42.7 million/67/67%/49--The surprisingly potent subgenre of Christmas horror got a reasonably well-received entry with this horror-comedy about the titular creature, from Austrian folklore, who visits naughty children during the Christmas season to scare them straight. In this version, he is inadvertently summoned by a pre-teen (Emjay Anthony) after he lost his Christmas spirit due to the bickering of his extended family. Said family (which included Adam Scott, Toni Colette, and David Koechner) then have to pull together to save themselves from being killed once Krampus invades. Critics were relatively kind to the film, and it became a minor sleeper, ultimately grossing almost exactly as much as the far more hyped The Night Before.
Director: Michael Dougherty
New Limited Releases:
Chi-Raq--$2.7 million/172/82%/77--This comedy-drama-musical updates the ancient Greek play Lysistrata to the South Side of Chicago in the present day, as the girlfriend (Teyonah Parris) of a gang leader (Nick Cannon) rallies not only the girlfriends of her boyfriend's gang's members, but the girlfriends of the members of their rival gang to stop having sex until the boys agree to lay down their weapons, which spirals in unimaginable ways. Director Spike Lee got an excellent cast, including Wesley Snipes as the head of the rival gang, Angela Bassett as Parris's landlady and mentor, Jennifer Hudson as a woman who loses her young daughter to gang violence, John Cusack as a local priest, D.B. Sweeney as the mayor of Chicago, Harry J. Lennox as the police commissioner, along with Dave Chappelle, Steve Harris, Irma P. Hall, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., and Samuel L. Jackson as the narrator. While the film's reviews were somewhat mixed, they were for the most part considerably better than Lee's previous few narrative feature films. Like October's Beasts of No Nations, this marked the beginning of the sea change in movie distribution, as this was the first film produced by Amazon, which put it on Prime by the end of the year.
Director: Spike Lee
Youth--$2.7 million/170/71%/64--Michael Caine is an aging composer who has been invited by Buckingham Palace to play his most popular composition for Queen Elizabeth II. Not wanting to do it, he retreats to a luxury resort in the Alps with best friend Harvey Keitel, a famous director. Rachel Weisz played Caine's estranged daughter, Paul Dano played a young actor also staying at the resort, and Jane Fonda as an actress and Keitel's muse. The first film for director Paolo Sorrentino since winning the Foreign Language Film Oscar a year earlier for The Great Beauty, this was his second English-language film (after the little-seen This Must Be the Place in 2011). The film would earn an Oscar nomination for its Original Song "Simple Song #3".
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
The Lady in the Van--$10 million/128/89%/70--This British comedy-drama, based on a true story, starred Alex Jennings as playwright Alan Bennett, who for years allowed a homeless woman (Maggie Smith) to live in a van in his driveway. During their 15-year-relationship, Bennett discovered she was much more to her backstory than he suspected. Claire Foy played a social worker, and Smith's Harry Potter co-star Jim Broadbent played a blackmailer. In addition, most of the cast of the Bennett-written The History Boys, who had originated the roles on stage before recreating them for the 2006 film, had cameos, including Dominic Cooper, Frances de la Tour, James Corden, and Russell Tovey. The director of this film, Nicholas Hytner, had also directed both the original stage show and the movie version of The History Boys.
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Ten Years Ago--December 3, 2010:
#1 Movie:
Tangled--$21.6 million
New Wide Releases:
The Warrior's Way--9/$3.1 million/$5.7 million/148/31%/45--In this martial arts western, a co-production of the odd couple countries of South Korea and New Zealand, an assassin (Jang Dong-gun) decides to spare a baby that is the sole survivor of her clan. This enrages his own clan, who vowed to kill every one of their rivals, causing Jang to flee to 19th century America to hide out in a small town in the west, where he meets the town drunk (Geoffrey Rush) and the owner of the local laundry (Kate Bosworth), both of whom have secrets. While Jang's former comrades search for him, he prepares to defend the town from a vicious outlaw (Danny Huston) and his gang. Critics found the film bizarre, and audiences thoroughly ignored it after it was dumped with little promotion the first weekend of December.
Director: Sngmoo Lee
New Limited Releases:
Black Swan--$107 million/25/85%/79--In this psychological thriller from Darren Aronofsky, Natalie Portman played a ballet dancer with a prestigious company who lands the demanding lead role in Swan Lake, which requires her to dance both the innocent White Swan and the seductive Black Swan. The pressure begins to make her already tenuous mental stability dangerously slip. Vincent Cassel played the alternately abusive and seductive artistic director of the company, Barbara Hershey played Portman's mother, whose hold on reality is about as stable as her daughter, Winona Ryder played the former prima ballerina of the company, a pre-Winter Soldier Sebastian Stan played a guy who tried to pick up Ryder at a bar, alongside his The Covenant co-star Toby Hemingway, and Mila Kunis played a new ballerina in the company who befriends Portman, but might have ulterior motives. The film got excellent reviews, especially for Portman, and the film would earn five Oscar nominations, including Picture, Director, Cinematography, and Editing, and Portman would win Actress. It would also be a surprise commercial hit, and is still Aronofsky's highest-grossing film, as well as Portman's highest-grossing outside the Star Wars and MCU franchises.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Outside the Law--$0.1 million/341/76%/59--A sequel to 2006's Days of Glory (like this, also a Foreign Language Film nominee from Algeria), this drama concerns three Algerian brothers (Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila) who move to France and all eventually become involved in the Algerian independence movement. Despite its Oscar nomination, it was barely seen in North America.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Fifteen Years Ago--December 9, 2005:
New Wide Releases:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe--1/$65.6 million/$291.7 million/2/76%/75--In the wake of the success of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, studios were very interested in adapting popular fantasy book series, and, for the first film at least, Disney hit the jackpot with their adaption of C.S. Lewis's 1950 Christian allegory, which launched a 7-book series. During the London blitz, four siblings (Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell), staying at a home in the British countryside, discover that a wardrobe in an unused room is actually a portal to the magical land of Narnia, which is being held in the icy grip of the White Witch (Tilda Swinton). Discovering they're the ones who can free the land, they set out to battle her with the help of the great lion Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson). James McAvoy played a faun (half-human, half-goat) who befriends the children, Jim Broadbent played the owner of the estate the children were staying at, and various animals were voiced by Ray Winstone, Michael Madsen, and Rupert Everett. The film was a huge success, ending up as the highest-grossing film of the holidays, and did well critically. It would be Oscar nominated for Sound Mixing and Visual Effects, and the Makeup would win. It would be followed by two sequels in 2008 and 2010, but both were such box office disappointments that the franchise ended up being cancelled before books 4-7 could be adapted.
Director: Andrew Adamson
New Limited Releases:
Memoirs of a Geisha--$57.5 million/45/35%/54--Rob Marshall's first film since Chicago was this adaption of the best-selling novel about a young Japanese girl and the training she undergoes to become a geisha in pre-World War II Japan. Ziyi Zhang played the grown-up girl, with her Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon co-star Michelle Yeoh as the geisha who trains her, Gong Li as a rival geisha, Mako, in one of his final roles, as Zhang's father, and Ken Watanabe as a rich man who takes an interest in Zhang. The film was visually appealing, but critics complains the story was basically a soap opera, as well as the widespread casting of Chinese actresses instead of Japanese ones. The film would still earn six Oscar nominations, including for Score, Sound Mixing, and Sound Editing, and would win three, for Cinematography, Art Direction, and Costumes.
Director: Rob Marshall
Brokeback Mountain--$83 million/22/87%/87--In early 60s Wyoming, young cowboys Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are hired to spend the summer tending a herd of sheep, during which they begin a sexual relationship with each other. Even though both eventually marry women, the two men find themselves constantly drawn to each other over the years, though Ledger's fears of his sexual orientation coming to light keeps him from truly committing to Gyllenhaal. Michelle Williams, Ledger's real-life girlfriend, played his wife, and Anne Hathaway played Gyllenhaal's wife. Randy Quaid, in one of his final roles in a major movie before his mental issues surfaced, played the sheep owner who hired Ledger and Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini played another girlfriend of Ledger's, Anna Faris and David Harbour played friends of Hathaway, and Kate Mara played Ledger's and Williams's daughter. The film was a major critical success, and depending on how you classify Interview With the Vampire, became the highest-grossing drama centering on LGBT characters ever. It would earn 8 Oscar nominations, including Actor for Ledger, Supporting Actor for Gyllenhaal, Supporting Actress for Williams, and Cinematography, and would win Director for Ang Lee, who would become the first Asian winner, Adapted Screenplay, and Score. It was the heavy favorite to win Best Picture as well, but was upset by Crash.
Director: Ang Lee
Mrs. Henderson Presents--$11 million/141/67%/71--Judi Dench played the titular Mrs. Henderson, whose pre-World War II London theater is losing money, until she gets the idea to stage revues with all-nude girls, a first for Great Britain. Naturally, this makes her shows very popular, but they run into trouble when the war does begin, and the government feels the large crowds are a safety hazard, what with the blitz going on and all. Bob Hoskins played the theater manager who didn't exactly see eye-to-eye with Dench, Christopher Guest played a prudish government official, Kelly Reilly played one of the performers, and Toby Jones also appears. The film received mostly decent reviews, and was nominated for two Oscars, Actress for Dench and Costumes.
Director: Stephen Frears
Expanding:
Syriana--2/$11.7 million
Twenty Years Ago--December 8, 2000:
#1 Movie:
How the Grinch Stole Christmas--$18.7 million
New Wide Releases:
Vertical Limit--2/$15.5 million/$69.2 million/35/48%/48--This mountain climbing thriller starred Chris O'Donnell, as a climber still feeling guilty over the death of his father, who mounts a rescue mission on K2 to save his sister (Robin Tunney) and the rich guy (Bill Paxton) she's climbing with. They're joined by Scott Glenn, who lost his wife on the mountain during Paxton's prior attempt to reach the summit, and who might be more interested in revenge. Former Bond Girl Izabella Scorupco (in director Martin Campbell's GoldenEye) and Ben Mendelsohn played other rescuers. Critics didn't much like the film, but it proved to be a moderate box office success. Despite that, this would be O'Donnell's final lead role in a major film.
Director: Martin Campbell
Proof of Life--3/$10.2 million/$32.6 million/79/39%/45--When an engineer (David Morse) is kidnapped by rebel forces in a South American country where he's working on building a dam, his desperate wife (Meg Ryan) turns to a specialist in ransom negotiations (Russell Crowe) in hopes that he might be able to save him. But if not...well, Crowe is pretty hot himself. David Caruso played another negotiator working with Crowe, Pamela Reed played Morse's sister, and supporting roles for Anthony Heald and Margo Martindale. This movie became tabloid fodder when it came out that Ryan and Crowe had had an affair during production, which ended her marriage to Dennis Quaid, but with poor reviews and more entertaining options at the theater, the scandal and their combined star power couldn't get many people into the theater.
Director: Taylor Hackford
Dungeons & Dragons--5/$7.2 million/$15.4 million/114/10%/14--Given the fame and popularity of the game, and the fact that high fantasy never really goes out of style, it's a surprise it took until 2000 for the RPG to be adapted into a movie. Then again, maybe they should have waited a while longer. The plot involves a couple of teenage thieves (Justin Whalin, Marlon Wayans, a long, long way from Requiem for a Dream) assisting a good empress (Thora Birch) against an evil wizard (Jeremy Irons, chewing all the scenery in his first dragon movie of the decade). Bruce Payne played Irons's evil assistant, and cult figures Richard O'Brien and Tom Baker had cameos. Critics were aghast, and holiday audiences preferred the elegance and sophistication of the following week's Dude, Where's My Car?
Director: Courtney Solomon
New Limited Releases:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon--$128.1 million/12/97%/94--After finding critical success with the English language Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm, Taiwanese director Ang Lee returned to Asia to direct a martial arts film, and ended up with what is still his second-highest grossing film in North America. In 18th century China, swordsman Chow Yun-Fat asks swordswoman Michelle Yeoh to deliver a special sword to Peking, but it gets stolen first by a young thief (Ziyi Zhang, credited as Zhang Ziyi) who turns out to be the daughter of the governor, and who had been secretly trained by legendary outlaw Cheng Pei-Pei. The pursuit of the sword facilitated some of the most spectacular sword fighting and martial arts action ever seen in a major film. The film was a huge critical hit, but more impressively, it became a huge commercial hit as well, breaking out of the art houses in a way no foreign film before or since has done. To this day, it is one of only two primarily subtitled films (along with the American produced The Passion of the Christ) to gross over $100 million in North America. It would receive ten Oscar nominations, including Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Costumes, Editing, and Song for "A Love Before Time", and would win four, including Cinematography, Score, Art Direction, and Foreign Language Film. A Netflix-produced sequel, in which Yeoh would be the only cast member who would return, would premiere in 2016.
Director: Ang Lee
Snatch--$30.3 million/82/73%/55--British director Guy Ritchie (who, a couple of weeks after this opened, would become Mr. Madonna), avoided the sophomore slump with this well-received violent comedy, in which a bunch of British lowlifes, including Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones, Ewen Bremner, and Rade Serbedzija threaten, fight, and shoot each other over a stolen diamond. Benicio Del Toro played the thief who stole the diamond in the first place, Dennis Farina played an American jeweler, and Brad Pitt played a bare-knuckles boxer who gets sucked into the mayhem. Despite some complaints that the film was essentially a redo of Ritchie's first film, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, it proved to be a moderate hit, thanks largely to the presence of Pitt.
Director: Guy Ritchie
Twenty-Five Years Ago--December 8, 1995:
#1 Movie:
Toy Story--$13.9 million
New Wide Releases:
Father of the Bride, Part II--2/$11.1 million/$76.6 million/17/50%/49--As the 1991 Father of the Bride was a remake of the 1950 comedy starring Spenser Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor, this is a loose remake of that film's sequel, Father's Little Dividend, in which the now happily married Kimberly Williams reveals she's pregnant, to the delight of mom Diane Keaton and the horror of dad Steve Martin. Things get even crazier when Keaton learns she's pregnant again, as well (a plotline that definitely didn't happen in the 1951 version). Returning from the first film is George Newburn as Williams's husband, 13-year-old Kieran Culkin as Martin and Keaton's son, Martin Short as the wackily-accented wedding planner-turned-baby planner, B.D. Wong as his assistant, and Eugene Levy in a different role, this time playing a potential buyer of Martin's house. In addition, Jane Addams played an obstetrician. Critics were less kind this time around, but the film made almost as much as the first one did. Despite rumors popping up for years, a third full-length installment never emerged, but in 2020, most of the original cast reprised their roles via Zoom for a pandemic-themed reunion for charity.
Director: Charles Shyer
New Limited Releases:
Georgia--$1.1 million/199/80%/81--Georgia (Mare Winningham) is happily married and a highly successful singer. Her younger sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is an alcoholic who is trying to scratch out a living on the bottom rungs of the music industry in this family drama. As Winningham does what she can for her sister, Leigh begins to spin more and more out of control. Despite the acclaim, the film wasn't able to break out of the art houses, but it did earn a Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Winningham.
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Thirty Years Ago--December 7, 1990:
#1 Movie:
Home Alone--$14.2 million
New Wide Releases:
The Rookie--3/$5.5 million/$21.6 million/56/29%/41--This violent cop drama may not be the nadir of Eastwood's career, but it was pretty close. After his previous partner was murdered by car thief Raul Julia, Eastwood is taken off the case and assigned rookie office Charlie Sheen to be his new partner. Eastwood continues to try to take down Julia anyway, but its possible that Sheen's inexperience might blow the whole operation. Sonia Braga, who co-starred with Julia in Kiss of the Spider Woman, played his partner, Tom Skerritt played Sheen's father, and Lara Flynn Boyle played Sheen's girlfriend. The so-so performance of this film continued Eastwood's career slump, as he hadn't had a hit since 1986's Heartbreak Ridge, but he would break out of it with his next film, Unforgiven.
Director: Clint Eastwood
New Limited Releases:
Edward Scissorhands--$56.4 million/20/90%/74--Thanks to Batman, Tim Burton had his choice of projects. He chose to make this deeply personal fable, about an artificial man (Johnny Depp, working with Burton for the first time) who, as the title reveals, has two pairs of scissors in place of his hands. When he is discovered by an Avon lady (Dianne Wiest), she brings him home, where his talents with topiary, dog grooming, and hair styling soon makes him quite popular. Of course, him being a unique creature in a town that thrives on conformity, that popularity won't last. Winona Ryder, then Depp's girlfriend offscreen, played Wiest's daughter, who soon finds herself falling for Depp, Alan Arkin plays her father, Anthony Michael Hall, in a change-of-pace role, played Ryder's angry boyfriend, and Burton's idol Vincent Price, in his final appearance in a live-action film, played Depp's late creator. Critics were quite positive, and the film became an unexpected hit. Its Makeup would be Oscar-nominated.
Director: Tim Burton.
The Grifters--$13.5 million/86/91%/86--In this neo-noir, set in the then-present day though the book it is based on was published in 1963, small-time con artist John Cusack receives a visit from his estranged mother, Angelica Huston, who works for mobster Pat Hingle. Cusack's girlfriend, Annette Bening, is also a con artist, and tries to talk Cusack into joining a long con she has planned, much to Huston's chagrin. The film is full of familiar character actors in small roles, including Stephen Tobolowsky as a jeweler that Bening seduced, Henry Jones as a desk clerk, J.T. Walsh as Bening's former partner, Charles Napier as Bening's and Walsh's mark, and Cusack's longtime friend Jeremy Piven as one of Cusack's marks. In addition, producer Martin Scorsese provides the opening narration. While not a huge box office hit, it got rave reviews, and was nominated for four Oscars, including Actress for Huston, Supporting Actress for Bening, Director for Stephen Frears, and Adapted Screenplay.
Director: Stephen Frears
Thirty-Five Years Ago--December 6, 1985:
#1 Movie:
Rocky IV--$11.2 million
New Wide Releases:
Spies Like Us--2/$8.6 million/$60.1 million/10/32%/22--Chevy Chase finished off a monster 1985 with his third big hit comedy, teaming with his former Saturday Night Live co-star Dan Ackroyd (in his first starring role since Ghostbusters) for this farce about two wannabe spies who are hired by the CIA to, unbeknownst to them, be decoys while the real spies capture an important Soviet asset. Of course, it's Ackroyd (who also co-wrote the script) and Chase, playing variations of their usual characters (Ackroyd-intelligent but socially awkward, Chase-wisecracking and cocky) who succeed. Ackroyd's real-life wife, Donna Dixon, played one of the "real" spies who reluctantly joins forces with the duo (oddly, she ends up as Chase's love interest). Bruce Davidson played a government official, and this being a John Landis film (he also had a busy year, having directed the largely forgotten Into the Night, in which Ackroyd had a supporting role, in the spring), there are numerous cameos from famous directors and other behind-the-scenes personnel, including Frank Oz, Terry Gilliam, Ray Harryhausen, Derek Meddings, Joel Coen, Sam Raimi, Michael Apted, Larry Cohen, Martin Breast, and Costa-Gavras. Also cameoing were Bob Hope (in his final appearance in a feature film), B.B. King, and Matt Frewer. Critics weren't impressed, but audiences flocked to it, making it one of the bigger hits of the holiday season.
Director: John Landis
Young Sherlock Holmes--5/$2.5 million/$19.7 million/46/64%/65--Despite reuniting much of the behind-the-scenes team that made summer smash The Goonies (including producer Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Chris Columbus), holiday audiences weren't much interested in finding out about the legendary detective as a teenager. Newcomer Nicholas Rowe played the schoolboy Holmes, who, along with new best friend Watson (Alan Cox) and his girlfriend (Sophie Ward) investigate a series of mysterious deaths that appear to be suicides. The film is probably best remembered today for featuring the first CGI movie character, a knight in a stained glass window that, during a hallucination, appears to come to life (this was supervised by John Lasseter, then a young employee of Industrial Lights and Magic, ten years before he would direct Toy Story). That would help the film get an Oscar nomination for Visual Effects.
Director: Barry Levinson
New Limited Releases:
Runaway Train--$7.7 million/100/85%/67--Cannon Films was mostly known for its series of Chuck Norris vehicles, but the company had a surprisingly arty side, having in 1985 released the Neil Jordan fairy tale riff The Company of Wolves, the Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee When Father Was Away on Business, and this actioner, based on a screenplay by, of all people, Akira Kurosawa (who was never able to get the funding to make it himself). The film also attracted a much higher caliber of actors than Norris, as Oscar winner Jon Voight played an escaped convict in the Alaskan wilderness whose attempt to flee the prison with accomplice Eric Roberts goes haywire when the engineer of the freight train they hopped on has a heart attack, meaning they're now on...well, read the title. Rebecca DeMornay played the only other person on board the train, who finds the two convicts and helps then as they try to figure out how to stop it before they and other people are killed. Despite strong reviews, the film flopped (Invasion U.S.A. ended up making more than twice the amount this did), but it did end up with three Oscar nominations, including Actor for Voight, Supporting Actor for Roberts, and Editing.
Director: Andrei Konchalovskiy
Expanding:
White Nights--3/$4.6 million
Forty Years Ago--December 5, 1980:
New Wide Releases:
Flash Gordon--$27.1 million/23/83%/58--The holiday movie season finally kicked off with yet another film that wouldn't exist without Star Wars, a big budget adaption of the old sci-fi comic strip, that George Lucas tried to get the rights to before he made the 1977 blockbuster. Flash (Sam Jones), a football star, gets, for contrived reasons, sent to the planet Mongo, ruled by Ming the Merciless (Max Von Sydow), who is trying to destroy Earth. Flash, an Earth girl (Melody Anderson), a Earth scientist (Topol), Ming's rebellious daughter (Ornella Muti), and two Mongo princes (Brian Blessed and Timothy Dalton) team up to fight to save the Earth. Robbie Coltrane, in one of his first film appearances, has a small part, and Kenny Baker, famous for playing R2-D2, pops up as a dwarf. The film's reviews weren't that bad, but with the sheer amount of sci-fi that had come out in the 3 1/2 years since Star Wars (including that summer's The Empire Strikes Back) had diluted the market for the genre, so the film ended up underperforming, though it quickly became a cult classic.
Director: Mike Hodges
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