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‘Get Out’ Scores Monster $30.5 Million Opening Weekend Debut Despite Racism Claims

Crews February 26, 2017 2 min read

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‘Get Out‘ has been the most talked about film in quite some time, and according to all of social media over the weekend, is the must see film of 2017.

Well as expected, the thriller has ranked in major numbers in its opening weekend and brought home the gold. All despite the fact that it received a little backlash from some viewers who claimed there was racism toward white people in the film.

Via Variety:

“Get Out,” a trenchant horror film about race relations, rode critical raves to a smashing box office debut. The low-budget film was the weekend’s top-grossing domestic release, earning $30.5 million, and propelling its director and writer Jordan Peele atop Hollywood’s A-list. The film, which centers on a black man who discovers that his girlfriend’s liberal, lily-white hometown is guarding a sinister secret, marks a departure for Peele, best-known for his work on the Comedy Central series “Key & Peele.” It proves he can handle scares, as well as laughs, supplying sly social commentary in both genres.

It wasn’t just word-of-mouth that accounted for the robust opening. “Get Out” benefited from being embraced by reviewers, earning a rare 100% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the likes of the Wall Street Journal’s Joe Morgenstern hailing its “explosive brilliance” and the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis praising it as “exhilaratingly smart.” The last horror film to receive that type of unanimous praise was Roman Polanski’s “Repulsion” in 1965.

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