An Inconvenient Hit

Al Gore's climate crisis movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," has right wing opponents foaming at the mouth. While one fulminates on Fox with baseless claims, others compare Gore to Goebbels and Hitler. But even before the film has been released in most of America, it's a hit.

Last week it was #11 at the box office. What's so great about that, apart from the fact that documentaries rarely get even that high? Consider the film that's #10: it was showing at 1,265 theatres. Gore's movie, one notch down in grosses, was showing in four theatres. That's not four hundred. That's four. That's one thousand two hundred and sixty-one fewer theatres than #10.