Some Of My Sleeper Movies

I think the industry defines a "sleeper" as a movie that was low budget with little promotion and had no "buzz" connected to it, yet did surprisingly well at the box office or later on VHS/DVD. For me a "sleeper" is a movie where I am the only one in my circle of friends and family that knows about it. I then turn others on to it and they thank me for doing so (well some don't). Here are 20 in no particular order

20

Items on this list

63%

Average Rating

36h 9m

Total Runtime

$114.9M

Total Revenue
Order
Title
Rating
Type
Release Date
Runtime
Revenue
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Cousins Ted Danson, Isabela Rossellini, Sean Young, Lloyd Bridges
Movie
February 10, 1989
 
Finnegan Begin Again Mary Tyler Moore, Robert Preston, Sam Waterston
Movie
February 24, 1985
 
Ghost Story Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, John Houseman, Craig Wasson, Patricia Neal
Movie
December 18, 1981
 
Hannie Caulder Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Earnest Borgnine, Strother Martin, Jack Elam, Christopher Lee
Movie
May 24, 1972
 
Just Between Friends Mary Tyler Moore, Ted Danson, Christine Lahti, Sam Waterston
Movie
March 21, 1986
 
Memorial Day James Cromwell, Jonathon Bennett, John Cromwell
Movie
June 6, 2011
 
Mumford Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Jason Lee, Alfre Woodard, Zooey Deschanel, Martin Short, Jason Ritter, Ted Danson, David Paymer
Movie
September 24, 1999
 
Shattered Tom Berenger, Gretta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins, Corbin Bernson, Joanne Whalley
Movie
October 11, 1991
 
Soapdish Sally Field, Terri Hatcher, Cathy Moriarty, Robert Downey Jr, Kevin Kline, Elizabeth Shue, Whoopie Goldberg
Movie
May 31, 1991
 
Someone to Watch Over Me Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, Lorraine Bracca, Jerry Orbach
Movie
October 9, 1987
 
State and Main Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H Macy, Rebecca Pidgeon, Michael Higgins, Charles Durning, Julia Stiles
Movie
January 12, 2001
 
Target Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt
Movie
November 8, 1985
 
The Big Fix Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow
Movie
October 6, 1978
 
The Boys in Company C Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, Craig Wasson, James Canning, R. Lee Ermey
Movie
February 2, 1978
 
The Package Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones, John Heard, Dennis Franz, Pam Grier
Movie
August 25, 1989
 
The Silent Partner Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, John Candy
Movie
March 16, 1979
 
The Train Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
Movie
March 7, 1965
 
Vanishing Act Mike Farrell, Margot Kidder, Elliot Gould, Fred Gwynne
Movie
May 4, 1986
 
White Palace Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Jason Alexander, Kathy Bates, Eileen Brennan, Steven Hill
Movie
October 19, 1990
 
White Squall Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Ryan Phillppe
Movie
February 2, 1996

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