Reception
With a budget of $21 million and with $123,306,987 in ticket sales, the film was a big commercial success. The film opened at the number 2 spot with $18,865,080 in the United States, behind Titanic.
The film received generally positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 67% based on reviews from 60 critics, with an average rating of 6.1/10.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (18581915)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, I hear you spoke here tonight. Oh, it was nothing, I replied modestly. Yes, the little old lady nodded, thats what I heard.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)