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The kids are all right-well, some of them, anyway. Pint-size powerhouse Macaulay Culkin, for example. Despite lukewarm reviews, The Good Son, Culkin's & R-rated bad-seed thriller, garnered $12.5 million to become Twentieth Century Fox's biggest fall opener ever, beating out the studio's previous record holder, 1992's Last of the Mohicans. Son surprised Fox by appealing to audiences of various ages and ethnic backgrounds, living everywhere from Times Square to Tacoma. On the flip side is the independent '70s teencom Dazed and Confused. Critics' raves were largely disregarded as Dazed, hindered by a lack of big- name stars, drew modestly and finished 13th. Still, the film's good word of mouth may carry it through the fall rush. Weekend Gross Weeks in Gross Top 20 to Date Release
1 $12.5 The Good Son $12.5 1 2 $6.8 The Program Touchstone, James Caan $6.8 1 3 $5.2 The Fugitive $161.4 8 4 $5.0 Striking Distance $16.1 2 Columbia, Bruce Willis 5 $4.8 The Age of Innocence $8.1 2 6 $1.7 Warlock:The Armageddon .$1.7 1 Trimark, Julian Sands 7 $1.7 Undercover blues MGM, Kathleen Turner $10.9 3 8 $1.6 Jurassic Park Universal, Sam Neill $324.2 16 9 $1.6 The Joy Luck Club $2.4 3 Touchstone, Tamlyn Tomita 10 $1.5 The Man Without a Face $21.7 5 Warner Bros., Mel Gibson 11 $1.4 True Romance $10.6 3 Warner Bros., Christian Slater 12 $1.4 Into the West Miramax, Gabriel Byrne $3.0 2 13 $0.9 Dazed and Confused $0.9 1 Gramercy, Jason London 14 $0.8 The Secret Garden $28.1 7 Warner Bros., Kate Maberly 15 $0.8 Free Willy $71.2 11 Warner Bros., Jason James Richter 16 $0.7 Airborne Warner Bros., Shane McDermott $2.1 2 17 $0.6 The Firm Paramount, Tom Cruise $154.0 13 18 $0.5 Hard Target $30.3 6 Universal, Jean-Claude Van Damme 19 $0.5 Rookie of the year $52.2 12 20th Century Fox, Gary Busey & 20 $0.5 Rising Sun $60.6 9 20th Century Fox, Sean Connery Weekend Per-Screen Number of Avgerage Top 10/per screen Screens 1 $15,363 THE JOY LUCK CLUB Touchstone 103 2 $10,103 THE AGE OF INNOCENCE Columbia 472 3 $6,779 THE GOOD SON 20th Century Fox. 1,847 4 $5,017 DAZED AND CONFUSED Gramercy 183 5 $4,127 THE PROGRAM Touchstone 1,653 6 $2,615 STRIKING DISTANCE Columbia. 1,917 7 $2,462 INTO THE WEST Miramax 550 8 $2,375 THE FUGITIVE Warner Bros .2,203 9 $1,475 JURASSIC PARK Universal 1,073 10 $1,320 WARLOCK: THE ARMAGEDDON Trimark 1,320 *Weekend of Sept. 24-26 (Dollar Figures In Millions) *Drawn From 20 Top-Grossing Films
