Movies that would have been huge hits if the lead had been

Movies that would have been huge hits if the lead had been Sept 27, 2019 11:12:11 GMT Winter_King likes this

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Post by dianachristensen on Sept 27, 2019 11:12:11 GMT

Sept 27, 2019 10:54:51 GMT Winter_King said:

Sept 27, 2019 10:11:25 GMT dianachristensen said:

a white dude.

Copycat (1995)

I don't want to post anything with spoilers, so I can't show the best scenes, of course.

I'm not sure if I agree with your premise although it's possible. There is movie called Set It Off which has four female back leads and it was a critical and a commercial hit. It was New Line Cinema biggest success of 1996. Also a pretty good movie.

Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter were pretty good as the leads in that movie and I'm not entirely sure if Aliens would've been a bigger hit if it had other lead other than Sigourney Weaver.

Set it Off is great; I wish I'd already answered my op here with that before you mentioned it. That's exactly a movie I would include in my thesis (I wanted the thread title to read "...hits if the lead(s) had been" but the "(s)" didn't fit).

Set it Off and Copycat have extremely comparable critical reception:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_It_Off_(film)#Critical_response

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_(film)#Reception

and Box Office:

www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=copycat.htm

www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=setitoff.htm

but I wouldn't call either a huge hit, not by a long shot. I can only imagine what kind of Box Office a movie like Set it Off would've made if it had a cast closer to that of The Expendables.

www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=expendables.htm