In the early 1990s, Julia Roberts had established herself as "America's Sweetheart...even in suspense thrillers" with "Pretty Woman," "Sleeping with the Enemy," "Hook," and "The Pelican Brief." Then she made one of the more peculiar entries in her oeuvre, 1996's "Mary Reilly." Moviegoers probably should have sensed something was the matter when she appeared on the poster and didn't smile. "Mary Reilly" is essentially an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," but told from the perspective of his household maid, Mary Reilly. It's an interesting premise; alas, that's about all it is.
Critics shellacked it with a 26% Tomatometer score and moviegoers weren't much kinder, giving it a 41% score. However, things really got bloody at the box office. Even with one of the world's biggest movie stars in the title role, "Mary Reilly" mustered a macabre $5.7 million domestically and $12.9 million worldwide. As bad as that is, wait 'til you hear the budget; $47 million. Ouch. With numbers like that, we imagine "Mary Reilly" lost about $82 million. But with career box office earnings of $2.9 billion domestically and $6.3 billion worldwide, we doubt Julia Roberts is sweating the massive misfire that was "Mary Reilly."
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