From The Accountant to Idiocracy: the films that became hits without anyone noticing

Unmemorable Ben Affleck thriller The Accountant was 2017’s most rented movie in the Us.

It’s far from the only forgotten film to achieve stealth successThese are hard times for Ben Affleck, what with everyone snarking about his tummy and his tattoo and the general manner in which he greets each day with a bone-deep, mournful billion-yard stare.

Times are so hard that every positive should be clung to, no matter how minuscule.So here’s a minuscule positive: it has been announced that Affleck’s film The Accountant was the most rented movie of 2017 in the Us.

More people rented The Accountant than Moana.

More people rented The Accountant than Beauty and the Beast.

More people rented it than Rogue One, Wonder Woman and Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

Sure, The Accountant only scraped in at 19th place in digital purchases.

If we’re talking physical sales (ie DVDs

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