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* OneBookAuthor: Christa Denton (Glen's sister) never acted again, while Louis Tripp (Terry) played Terry again in the film's sequel and only appeared in TV movies and short films afterwards.
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* SleeperHit: This unheralded film with a largely unknown cast finished a completely-unexpected #2 at the box office on its opening weekend, apparently a beneficiary of the horrible reviews that the #1 film, ''Film/{{Ishtar}}'', had gotten. Discouraged from seeing the [[Creator/WarrenBeatty Beatty]]-[[Creator/DustinHoffman Hoffman]] film, some filmgoers were intrigued enough by ''The Gate'' that it made back 2/3rds of its $6 million budget on just that opening weekend, and word-of-mouth sustained it enough that it ended up grossing $13 million.

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* SleeperHit: This unheralded film with a largely unknown cast finished a completely-unexpected #2 at the box office on its opening weekend, apparently a beneficiary of the horrible reviews that the #1 film, ''Film/{{Ishtar}}'', had gotten. Discouraged from seeing the [[Creator/WarrenBeatty Beatty]]-[[Creator/DustinHoffman Hoffman]] film, some enough filmgoers were intrigued enough by the advertising for ''The Gate'' that it made back 2/3rds of its $6 million budget on just that opening weekend, and word-of-mouth sustained it enough that it for the rest of the summer. It ended up grossing $13 million.
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* SleeperHit: This unheralded film with a largely unknown cast finished a completely-unexpected #2 at the box office on its opening weekend, apparently a beneficiary of the horrible reviews that the #1 film, ''Film/{{Ishtar}}'', had gotten. Discouraged from seeing the [[Creator/WarrenBeatty Beatty]]-[[Creator/DustinHoffman Hoffman]] film, some filmgoers were intrigued enough by ''The Gate'' that it made back 2/3rds of its $6 million budget on just that opening weekend, and word-of-mouth sustained it enough that it ended up grossing $13 million.

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