Release: The Secret History

The Secret History
Genre: Drama
Director: Ang Lee
Writer: Clive Steinbeck
Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Ansel Elgort, Josh Hutcherson, Chloe Grace Moretz, Freddie Highmore, Alex Wolff, Ewan McGregor

Budget: $28,000,000

Domestic Box Office: $31,202,022
Foreign Box Office: $30,471,986
Total Profit: $3,131,852

Reaction: Another lower-budget film makes a small profit. Ever since the release of Share, we were interested in making another smaller budgeted film. The budget grew a bit after the hiring of Ang Lee and after Chloe Grace Moretz demanded a significant pay increase to perform a nude scene. It all still worked out though.

"Honestly, it's just really hard to care about these characters. The actors are uniformly talented, but the characters are all just very unlikable - and not in a dark and humorous, but rather in a cold and boring way." - Desmond Rodgers, TIME Magazine

"The film is really a return to form for director Ang Lee. For the past several years, he has been making films undeserving of his superb craftsmanship (Life of Pi was overrated, there, I said it). The morally confused characters give Lee a creative landscape with which to analyze the human experience." - Matthew Ellis, USA Today

"Ansel Elgort's poor performance shows once again that he really only excels at playing his usual character, but the fine performances of Timothee Chalamet, Chloe Moretz and an unusually slimy Josh Hutcherson more than make up for it." - Michael Van Patten, Slant Magazine