Top 25 Box Office Films of 201511 of 25
#15: Home
According to a recent academic study, The Wizard of Oz is the most influential U.S. movie ever made: References and homages are found in thousands of different cultural artifacts. In fact, one can argue that Hollywood has been remaking it in one form or another for over 70 years. Films from E.T. to Star Wars have been inspired by its basic structure of a child (or child-like) protagonist suddenly thrust in a different world or environment trying to overcome evil forces and return home with the help of newly made friends.
Home slightly subverts this premise by having a little girl left behind on Earth while everyone else is being relocated by colonizing invaders. She befriends a sympathetic alien but mostly sticks to the same successful formula. If it ain't broke ...
U.S. Gross: $177,397,510
According to a recent academic study, The Wizard of Oz is the most influential U.S. movie ever made: References and homages are found in thousands of different cultural artifacts. In fact, one can argue that Hollywood has been remaking it in one form or another for over 70 years. Films from E.T. to Star Wars have been inspired by its basic structure of a child (or child-like) protagonist suddenly thrust in a different world or environment trying to overcome evil forces and return home with the help of newly made friends.
Home slightly subverts this premise by having a little girl left behind on Earth while everyone else is being relocated by colonizing invaders. She befriends a sympathetic alien but mostly sticks to the same successful formula. If it ain't broke ...
U.S. Gross: $177,397,510