The To Do List earned $1,579,000 during its first weekend according to the Box Office Mojo website. That ranked No. 15 among releases. Topping the list was Wolverine, which grossed $53 million, a disappointing performance, the website reported.
While ticket sales matched its modest $1.2 million to $1.5 million production cost, The To Do List stopped short of being the breakout movie for Delawarean Aubrey Plaza.
Critics at Forbes and Variety praised the sexual coming of age movie in their reviews.
Plaza, who mentions her Delaware roots frequently in interviews, is best known for her role in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation. She is a graduate of Ursuline Academy and performed with the Wilmington Drama League.
The comedy gained praise for looking at teen sex from a female point of view, something that has rarely been done in Hollywood. Set in the pre-Internet 1990s, the movie features Plaza as a high school valedictorian with a pre-college “to do list.”
“Putting aside politics for a moment, the whip-smart and laugh-out-loud funny,” Forbes critic Scott Mendelson wrote. “The To Do List joins Easy A and Mean Girls as one of the best mainstream studio releases about teenage girls over the last decade. I’d say it’s the best comedy of the year, but I haven’t gotten around to seeing This is the End or The World’s End, so I don’t want to make such a pronouncement quite yet.”
The movie will have multiple showings at the Penn Cinema Riverfront and other area multiplexes on Friday.
Click here for two reviews for the movie, which is rated R for its sexual content
Review: The To Do List Is Fantastically Feminist And Ferociously Funny – Forbes.
http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/film-review-the-to-do-list-1200562963/
