Every Sundance has a can’t-miss sensation, but few break out once they reach theaters.
‘Boyhood’
Sundance Debut:2014
Domestic Total Gross:$25.4 million
14.
Memento
Sundance Debut:2001
Domestic Total Gross:$25.5 million
13.
Matt Lankes
House Party
Sundance Debut:1990
Domestic Total Gross:$26.4 million
12.
Garden State
Sundance Debut:2004
Domestic Total Gross:$26.8 million
11.
Brooklyn
Sundance Debut:2015
Domestic Total Gross:$28.1 million
10.
Danny Rothenberg
A Walk in the Woods
Domestic Total Gross:$29.5 million
9.
(500) Days of Summer
Sundance Debut:2009
Domestic Total Gross:$32.4 million
8.
In the Bedroom
Domestic Total Gross:$35.9 million
7.
Mary Evans/New Line Cinema/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection
Napoleon Dynamite
Domestic Total Gross:$44.5 million
6.
28 Days Later
Sundance Debut:2003
Domestic Total Gross:$45.1 million
5.
Precious
Domestic Total Gross:$47.6 million
4.
K.C. Bailey
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Sundance Debut:1994
Domestic Total Gross:$52.7 million
3.
Saw
Domestic Total Gross:$55.2 million
2.
Little Miss Sunshine
Sundance Debut:2006
Domestic Total Gross:$59.9 million
1.
Kerry Brown
The Blair Witch Project
Sundance Debut:1999
Domestic Total Gross:$140.5 million
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