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30 Box Office Bombs From The 1990s That Are Actually Pretty Good

Hugh Scott

3 May 2024 at 11:32 am

Don't let the box office numbers fool you.

The Insider (1999)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Ed Wood (1994)

Fight Club (1999)

Newsies (1992)

Strange Days (1995)

Waterworld (1995)

The Frighteners (1996)

Quick Change (1990)

The Iron Giant (1999)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

School Ties (1992)

Chaplin (1992)

Last Action Hero (1993)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

The Two Jakes (1990)

Starship Troopers (1997)

Man On The Moon (1999)

Miller's Crossing (1990)

Flight Of The Intruder (1991)

Mystery Men (1999)

Event Horizon (1997)

Hoffa (1992)

Cry-Baby (1990)

Delirious (1991)

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)

Fallen (1998)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

The Super (1991)

Billy Bathgate (1991)

Don't let the box office numbers fool you.

A film's box office receipts rarely tell the whole story. Sometimes what turns into our favorite movies can't find an audience at first, and sometimes we form a new opinion of a movie years later and re-evaluate how good it really was. Just as some box office smashes don't stand the test of time, this list of box office flops shows that others age like fine wine.

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Some of the best movies of the 1990s did terribly, financially. Here is our list of movies that bombed at the box office, but are actually pretty good, or even great.

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