Meet the Mormons opened on 317 screens on Friday and has already made its way onto the list of the Top 100 documentary films of all time, and its distributor, Purdie Distribution, expects it to climb much higher very soon.
The film — which is either a feel-good look at the diversity of Mormons or church-financed propaganda, depending on your news source — earned $2.5 million over the weekend even though its audience fell 95 percent from Saturday to Sunday as Mormons observed the Sabbath.
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