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Renters are reveling in the polished comedy stylings of Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, and...Tom Arnold? That's right, McHale's Navy, the theatrical dud featuring the erstwhile Mr. Roseanne, debuted at No. 6 on the rentals chart, with the week's second-highest rentals-per-copy tally. The much higher-profile Fathers' Day, starring Williams and Crystal, came in at a relatively tepid No. 4, indicating that the odor from the film's dismal box office performance lingers still.
TAPE RENTALS
LAST WEEK WEEKS ON CHART
1 1 DANTE'S PEAK Pierce Brosnan, Universal 4 2 2 THE DEVIL'S OWN Harrison Ford, Columbia TriStar 5 3 3 MURDER AT 1600 Wesley Snipes, Warner 6 4 -- FATHERS' DAY Robin Williams, Warner 1 5 4 SLING BLADE Billy Bob Thornton, Miramax 8 6 -- MCHALE'S NAVY Tom Arnold, Universal 1 7 7 METRO Eddie Murphy, Touchstone 9 8 8 ABSOLUTE POWER Clint Eastwood, Warner 10 9 6 JUNGLE2JUNGLE Tim Allen, Walt Disney 7 10 5 SCREAM Neve Campbell, Dimension 12
TAPE SALES
1 1 STAR WARS TRILOGY: SPECIAL EDITION FoxVideo, $49.98 3 2 -- CASPER: A SPIRITED BEGINNING Steve Guttenberg, FoxVideo, $19.98 1 3 3 THE FIRST WIVES CLUB Bette Midler, Paramount, $14.95 3 4 4 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO & JULIET Leonardo DiCaprio, FoxVideo, $14.98 5 5 5 POOH'S GRAND ADVENTURE: THE SEARCH FOR CHRISTOPHER ROBIN Animated, Walt Disney, $24.99 6 6 2 PHENOMENON John Travolta, Touchstone, $19.99 2 7 7 TODD MCFARLANE'S SPAWN Animated, HBO, $22.97 6 8 6 MARY POPPINS Julie Andrews, Walt Disney, $22.99 38 9 -- BABE James Cromwell, Universal, $14.98 30 10 -- JUMANJI Robin Williams, Columbia TriStar, $14.95 20 KID VIDEO SALES
2 WEEKS AGO
1 1 FUN AND FANCY FREE Animated, Walt Disney, $26.99 7 2 6 POOH'S GRAND ADVENTURE: THE SEARCH FOR CHRISTOPHER ROBIN 3 Animated, Walt Disney, $24.99 3 2 THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Animated, Walt Disney, $26.99 27 4 5 A RUGRATS VACATION Animated, Paramount, $12.95 7 5 3 BAMBI Animated, Walt Disney, $26.99 189 6 7 GOOSEBUMPS: THE HAUNTED MASK II John White, FoxVideo, $14.98 5 7 -- CATS DON'T DANCE Animated, Warner, $19.98 1 8 4 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK: AMERICA ROCK Animated, ABC/Paramount, $12.95 91 9 9 MARY-KATE & ASHLEY: CASE OF U.S. NAVY MYSTERY Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Dualstar, $12.95 25 10 8 MARY-KATE & ASHLEY: CASE OF THE VOLCANO ADVENTURE Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Dualstar, $12.95 25
SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPT. 14, 1997 KID VIDEO DATA: BILLBOARD FROM THE ISSUE DATED SEPT. 20, 1997
