Beloved (1998)
Based on Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Beloved featured some of the best names in Hollywood, including Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, and Oprah Winfrey herself. Jonathan Demme spearheaded the film, but even the Silence of the Lambs director lost out against Chucky, the famous horror movie that debuted the same weekend. Winfrey remembers getting the phone call: “[T]hey said, ‘It’s over. You got beat by Chucky.’ And I said, ‘Who’s Chucky? What do you mean it’s over? It’s just Saturday morning!'”