The Brothers McMullen
The Brothers McMullen was an indie rom-com movie that followed the lives of three brothers. They were mainly in search of true love, but the familial bond between them was the true star of the show. It was released at the Sundance Film Festival in the mid-1990s before being picked up by Fox.
With a tiny budget of just under $240,000, there wasn’t much hope that this indie film would make it into hundreds of movie theaters across the country, but the unimaginable happened, and the filmmakers found themselves trying to count a profit of over $9 million.