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From: akhanna@bbncc5.UUCP (Atul C. Khanna)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Foreign films
Message-ID: <403@bbncc5.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 10:50:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 10:50:54 1985
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In article <1202@mtgzz.UUCP> ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) writes:
>> As reported in the Boston Globe today, "The Gods Must Be Crazy" has just
>> passed "La Cage aux Folles" as the highest grossing foreign film in the US.
>> To use the logic of some people on the net, if 20,000,000 dollars like this
>> movie, it can't be ALL bad. :-)
>
>Since films like GANDHI (and the "Mad Max" films) have grossed a *lot* more
>than $20 million, I presume that the Boston Globe means "foreign-language
>film," rather than "foreign film."  (That's what the Academy Award
>classification is, by the way, so that films made in Great Britain, Australia
>et al are in competition with American films, rather than Continental European
>films, Asian films, etc.)
>
>					Evelyn C. Leeper
>					...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl

Except that "The Gods Must be Crazy" is in English.
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