Paradise: Hope
The final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('Paradise: Love') and her aunt does missionary work ('Paradise: Faith'), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.
Date | Rank | Weekend | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Avg | To Date | Weekend |
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Jul 4-6 World Cup (Brazil) | 20 | $49 | - | 2 | - | $24 | $267 | 5 |
Jul 11-13 World Cup (Brazil) | 15 | $818 | +1,569.4% | 2 | - | $409 | $1,183 | 7 |
Jul 18-20 | 20 | $166 | -79.7% | 1 | -1 | $166 | $1,349 | 5 |
Jul 25-27 | 23 | $230 | +38.6% | 1 | - | $230 | $1,802 | 6 |
Aug 1-3 | 24 | $100 | -56.5% | 1 | - | $100 | $2,025 | 7 |
Aug 8-10 | 25 | $72 | -28% | 1 | - | $72 | $2,176 | 8 |
Aug 15-17 | 20 | $71 | -1.4% | 1 | - | $71 | $2,305 | 9 |
Aug 22-24 | 24 | $35 | -50.7% | 1 | - | $35 | $2,397 | 10 |
Aug 29-31 | 18 | $263 | +651.4% | 1 | - | $263 | $3,085 | 11 |