COME GET SUMMIT
Summer usually beckons moviegoers to big action flicks, and the same, no doubt, applies to rentals. Just ask Chris O'Donnell, who took to the hills in the man-against-mountain thriller Vertical Limit and scored the top spot. (In a surprising show of digital acceptance, the Vertical Limit DVD also made it on the chart. Who knew?) Elsewhere, the cinematic offspring of the old pen-and-paper role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons debuted at No. 8. One day, the geeks will inherit the earth...
RENTALS
LAST GROSS TO WEEKS ON EW VIDEO WEEK DATE CHART GRADE
1 -- VERTICAL LIMIT Chris O'Donnell $68.5 1 C- 2 1 WHAT WOMEN WANT Mel Gibson $182.7 3 B- 3 2 MISS CONGENIALITY Sandra Bullock $106.8 4 C+ 4 1 PAY IT FORWARD Haley Joel Osment $33.5 2 B 5 4 FINDING FORRESTER Sean Connery $51.8 5 B 6 5 MEN OF HONOR Robert De Niro $48.8 7 B- 7 -- VERTICAL LIMIT DVD Chris O'Donnell $68.5 1 -- 8 -- DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Jeremy Irons $15.2 1 D- 9 6 THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE Animated $89.2 4 B+ 10 10 SPACE COWBOYS Clint Eastwood $90.4 6 B 11 12 MEET THE PARENTS Ben Stiller $166.2 12 C 12 8 LITTLE NICKY Adam Sandler $39.5 5 D- 13 9 ALL THE PRETTY HORSES Matt Damon $79.9 4 B- 14 13 CHARLIE'S ANGELS Cameron Diaz $125.3 9 B+ 15 14 REMEMBER THE TITANS Denzel Washington $115.7 10 B 16 7 ANTITRUST Ryan Phillippe $11.3 2 C 17 11 BEST IN SHOW Fred Willard $18.6 2 A- 18 16 THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE Matt Damon $30.7 8 C+ 19 15 BOUNCE Gwyneth Paltrow $36.8 7 C+ 20 17 BILLY ELLIOT Jamie Bell $21.9 6 B-
SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 27, 2001. BOX OFFICE GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS. SOURCE: ACNIELSEN EDI, INC., AND EXHIBITOR RELATIONS CO. INC.
EW RECOMMENDS EW VIDEO GRADE
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH Gillian Anderson (Columbia TriStar, PG) Novelist Edith Wharton's tragic heroine realizes just how hard it is to find a good man. A-
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II Jet Li (Columbia TriStar, R) Master beater Li battles the mysterious White Lotus sect, grasshopper. A-
TRAFFIC Michael Douglas (USA, R) Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh offers a multifaceted glimpse into the unwinnable drug war. B+
COMING UP
ALL REVVED UP (MGM, R) John Turturro, Lili Taylor, and Will Patton are defenders of truth, justice, and auto mechanics everywhere.
CAST AWAY (Fox, PG-13) Or The Blue Lagoon with Tom Hanks as Christopher Atkins and Wilson the volleyball as Brooke Shields.
HARD CORE LOGO (Miramax, R) Director Bruce McDonald presents a mockumentary charting the harrowing rise and demise of a punk band.
PLATOON (MGM, R) The DVD Special Edition of Oliver Stone's violent and semi-autobiographical portrait of an infantryman in Vietnam.
VENUS BEAUTY INSTITUTE (Winstar, R) A quartet of restless Parisian souls search for love, friendship, and the perfect coif.
