All but one of 11 films given a share of a £92 million National Lottery grant flopped at the British box office, it has emerged. So the Millennium Dome is not the only guilty party when it comes to squandering Lottery cash ...
Below are the films that took our money:
HIDEOUS KINKY
Star: Kate Winslet
Cost: £3.2million
Lottery grant: £1,295,000
UK box office takings: £687,088
HOLD BACK THE NIGHT
Star: Sheila Hancock
Cost: £1,760,000
Lottery grant: £735,000
UK box office: £6,077
JANICE BEARD: 45WPM
Stars: Patsy Kensit, Rhys Ifans
Cost: £2,535,000
Lottery grant: £1,078,000
UK box office: £8,192
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT
Star: Max Beesley
Cost: £2,915,503
Lottery grant: £1,557,601
UK box office: £46,718
THERE'S ONLY ONE JIMMY GRIMBLE
Stars: Robert Carlyle, Gina McKee
Cost: £3,315,000
Lottery grant: £1,710,000
UK box office: £293,000
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Alicia Silverstone
Cost: £8,545,545
Lottery grant: £1,056,909
UK box office: £324,656
RATCATCHER
Stars: William Eadie, Tommy Flanaghan
Cost: £1,980,000
Lottery grant: £615,000
UK box office: £381,000
FANNY AND ELVIS
Stars: Ray Winstone, Kerry Fox
Cost: £3,200,000
Lottery grant: £1,477,850
UK box office: £148,242
THE LOST SON
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Nastassja Kinski
Cost: £6,056,250
Lottery grant: £2,300,000
UK box office: £41,277
DARKEST LIGHT
Stars: Stephen Dillane, Kerry Fox
Cost: £2,000,000
Lottery grant: £708,000
UK box office: £10,500
AN IDEAL HUSBAND
Stars: Rupert Everett, Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore
Cost: £6,350,000
Lottery grant: £1,000,000
UK box office: £2,891,515
