One classic I know was at least a relative flop was “A Christmas Story.” I had to check the actual box-office stats because I could be jaded by personal experience. The wife-to-be and I saw it in December of 1984 at a Bemidji State student union showing with an audience of….two. I remember not being very familiar with it before we saw it, except that the main kid character (Peter Billingsley) sold my beloved Nestle’s Quik in TV commercials. It wasn’t a great career for Peter, since IMDB says his next blockbuster was “The Hoboken Chicken Emergency.”