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In spite of its "commercially improbable story", the film became a "sleeper success", evidence of the resurgence of date movies "after a decade dominated by action films." In the first two weeks of a limited release, Benny & Joon grossed $8 million in U.S. box office. Its domestic box office reached over $23.2 million.
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