Boston - A Boston radio station is giving listeners a reason to see Gigli, the box office wreck starring Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck that some critics have panned as the worst film of the year.
As Gigli vanishes from American movie theatres following dismal ticket sales, alternative rock station WBCN is offering to give "I survived Gigli" T-shirts to anyone left in their seats when the lights come up after the final showing at a Boston cinema.
Chachi Loprete, the station's creative services director, said WBCN is offering free tickets to 130 "lucky" listeners.
"We're doing this because the movie's been such a bomb," he said on Tuesday.
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'We're doing this because the movie's been such a bomb' Critics have savaged Gigli. The New York Times dismissed it as a "hopelessly misconceived exercise in celebrity self-worship," while the Washington Post said it was "enervated, torpid, slack, dreary and, oh yes, nasty, brutish and long."
The $55-million (about R407-million) film brought in less than $6-million (about R44-million) during its first 10 days, according to North American box office estimates issued on Sunday.
In the film, Lopez, also known as JLo, plays a lesbian crook who helps Affleck's dim-witted character in a kidnapping plot.
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