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Over christmas weekEND, many renters followed turkey dinner with a raunchy dessert, making the comedy American Pie the week's top debut. While Pie -- a video shilled with a wholesome ''Master Baker Bake-Off'' contest -- served up 31 rentals per store, the chart-topping General's Daughter -- a family-unfriendly thriller about rape and murder -- moved an average of 39 tapes in its second week.
TAPE RENTALS GROSS TO WEEKS EW VIDEO LAST WEEK DATE ON CHART GRADE
1 1 THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER $102.7 2 D- John Travolta 2 3 WILD WILD WEST $113.8 4 D Will Smith 3 -- AMERICAN PIE $102.7 1 C+ Jason Biggs 4 4 DEEP BLUE SEA $73.6 3 B- Saffron Burrows 5 2 INSPECTOR GADGET $97.4 3 D Matthew Broderick 6 6 BIG DADDY $163.5 8 D+ Adam Sandler 7 5 ENTRAPMENT $87.7 5 B Sean Connery 8 7 AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME $205.4 6 D Mike Myers 9 9 NOTTING HILL $116.0 7 B+ Julia Roberts 10 8 THE HAUNTING $91.2 5 C- Catherine Zeta-Jones 11 10 INSTINCT $34.1 6 D+ Anthony Hopkins 12 11 THE MATRIX $171.4 14 B+ Keanu Reeves 13 14 JACK FROST $34.6 8 C+ Michael Keaton 14 12 TEACHING MRS. TINGLE $9.0 2 D Katie Holmes 15 15 LIFE $63.9 10 B- Eddie Murphy 16 13 SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT $52.0 5 A Animated 17 -- SUMMER OF SAM $19.3 1 B John Leguizamo 18 17 THE IRON GIANT $23.2 5 A- Animated 19 16 DICK $6.3 2 B- Kirsten Dunst 20 22 THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT $140.3 10 B+ Heather Donahue
SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING DEC. 26, 1999 BOX OFFICE GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS. SOURCE: ACNIELSEN EDI, INC.
