11 forgotten Sundance Film Festival gems you can watch right now
Eric D. Snider - 2-15-2015
Over the next 10 days, more than 100 new films will screen at the Sundance Film Festival -- and if history is any guide, most of them will never be heard from again. A lucky few, however may follow in the steps of Little Miss Sunshine, Napoleon Dynamite, and Whiplash and find mainstream fame; a couple dozen will find limited success within art house circles; and the rest will fade into obscurity.
But not all of these forgotten films deserve to be forgotten. And there's nothing stopping you from curating your own festival at home. Below, you'll find some forgotten Sundance premieres from the last 15 years -- all available to stream on Netflix, and all much, much better than most of what shows up at the multiplex. Give a few of these forgotten gems a chance, and get the experience of Sundance without waiting in line:
#7 - Happy Texas (1999)
This light and loopy comedy, starring Steve Zahn and Jeremy Northam as escaped convicts who hide out in a small town while posting as a gay couple, is only remembered for the wrong reasons: It's often held up as a cautionary tale about Sundance exuberance. The feel-good hit of Sundance 1999, it sold to Miramax for a record $10 million….then recouped less than $2 million when it hit theaters in the fall. Since then, it's been tainted by its box-office gross, remembered as a poor financial investment instead of the charming, sunny morsel it actually is. Unfair!
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