In a week that witnessed Hurricane Floyd, it seemed perversely fitting that the stormy romantic comedy Forces of Nature should earn the No. 1 rental spot. (Twenty-five copies of the Sandra Bullock-Ben Affleck flick flowed from the average store over the week.) And DreamWorks' other debut, the animated epic The Prince of Egypt, seemed an equally appropriate choice: The hero of the No. 2 tape can part waters.
TAPE RENTALS GROSS WEEKS EW VIDEO LAST WEEK TO DATE ON CHART GRADE
1 -- FORCES OF NATURE Ben Affleck $52.9 1 -- 2 -- THE PRINCE OF EGYPT Animated $101.3 1 C+ 3 2 PAYBACK Mel Gibson $81.5 8 C 4 3 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Kevin Costner $52.8 7 B- 5 1 ANALYZE THIS Robert De Niro $106.7 5 B+ 6 -- THE CORRUPTOR Chow Yun-Fat $15.1 1 C 7 6 THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN Michelle Pfeiffer $13.9 6 B- 8 4 CRUEL INTENTIONS Ryan Phillippe $38.3 7 C+ 9 11 THE OTHER SISTER Juliette Lewis $27.8 2 D 10 9 EDTV Matthew McConaughey $22.4 5 B 11 19 SHE'S ALL THAT Freddie Prinze Jr. $63.4 10 C- 12 5 EIGHT MILLIMETER Nicolas Cage $36.6 9 C- 13 15 PATCH ADAMS Robin Williams $135.0 13 D 14 10 TRUE CRIME Clint Eastwood $16.6 6 F 15 14 VARSITY BLUES James Van Der Beek $52.9 12 C- 16 17 OCTOBER SKY Jake Gyllenhaal $32.5 8 C 17 7 A CIVIL ACTION John Travolta $56.7 10 A 18 16 THE MOD SQUAD Claire Danes $13.3 4 F 19 12 BLAST FROM THE PAST Brendan Fraser $26.5 8 B- 20 18 SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK...FOR MORE Clayton Rohner -- 2 C+
SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPT. 19, 1999 GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS. SOURCE: ACNIELSEN EDI, INC.
