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And looking at her performance nearly three decades later, it’s easy to see why: Yes, Keanu Reeves is the can-do action hero of the movie, but Bullock is its Everywoman hero-she acts the way you or I would hope to act if trapped in the same situation. But playing Annie Porter in Speed would turn the actress overnight into America’s Next Sweetheart.

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She’d basically just been in the lightweight rom-com Love Potion No. YouTube Icon YouTube Icon Sandra Bullock’s ‘A Star is Born’ momentīefore Speed, Bullock wasn’t on anyone’s A-list. And perhaps the biggest surprise of the summer was that when all the receipts were tallied by Labor Day, City Slickers II had made $43 million and Speed had racked up $350 million. Speed opened on the same day as the sure-fire hit, City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold. Had it arrived a couple of years earlier or a couple of years later, there’s a good chance that audiences would have been too busy with Terminator 2 or The Rock to give ‘the bus movie’ a chance. In other words, the absence of an absolute heavyweight left the door wide open for a sleeper like Speed to sneak in. But most were pretty disappointing for one reason or another. Don’t get me wrong, some of those movies, like True Lies, are decent. Instead, Tinseltown was betting its chip stack on The Crow, Beverly Hills Cop III, Blown Away, The Shadow, True Lies, The Client, and Clear and Present Danger.

And yet, as May approached, no one in the industry expected Fox’s $30-million bomb-on-a-bus flick, Speed, to be the phenomenon it would become. Raising Arizona Has the Best Opening Everīecause summer ’94 wasn’t supposed to be the summer of SpeedĪfter Jaws kicked off the era of the modern blockbuster on June 20, 1975, summer became the de facto spot on the calendar when the biggest, loudest, and often dumbest Hollywood movies were rolled out into theaters.Charles Grodin Mastered the Art of Cranky.Every 'Mission: Impossible' Movie Ranked.