Reception
Reviews of Fluke were mixed with film review website Rotten Tomatoes tallying only 33% of its collected reviews as positive, giving the film a label of "Rotten". Despite these poor reviews both Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel gave it thumbs up . However, Fluke has received by the users of the Internet Movie Database a rate of 62%. In addition to IMDb, Allmovie's reviewer Mark Deming gave to the film 3/5 stars. Fluke underperformed at the box office, generating just under $4 million dollars in the American box office. Fluke also was nominated in 1996 by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for Best Fantasy Film and Best Performance by a Younger Actor for Max Pomeranc.
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