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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jun 26, 2014 3:47 PM UTC  THE NOTEBOOK, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, 2004, (c) New Line THE NOTEBOOK, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, 2004, (c) New LineNew Line Cinema  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jun 26, 2014 3:47 PM UTC Ten years after _The Notebook_‘s first weekend in theaters, it’s clear that the now-classic weeper won the weekend of June 25–27, 2004\. Even if you [truly hated it](http://time.com/2919712/the-notebook-10th-anniversary/), it’s become a repeat-viewing standby and a cultural touchstone. But on that actual weekend in 2004, _The Notebook_ wasn’t the movie that was driving conversation. The movie that _did_ have viewers talking was, in fact, pretty much the opposite of it. That [weekend](http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2004&wknd=26&p=.htm), _Fahrenheit_ _9/11_, the Michael Moore film, became the highest grossing documentary in Hollywood history. With a [reported](http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fahrenheit911.htm) production budget of a mere $6 million, it earned $23.9 million. It would eventually earn a domestic total of more than $119 million. _The Notebook_, by contrast, came in fourth that weekend; it earned $13.5 million — about half of its $29 million budget — and went on to gross $81 million domestically. (The other big new movie that weekend was _White Chicks_, which came in second.) Worldwide, _Fahrenheit 9/11_ has made about $222 million, nearly twice the $116 of _Notebook_. Those figures don’t count a gazillion teenage girls mobbing their local Blockbuster locations for rentals of the latter, but they do show that [quotability](http://time.com/2919207/best-notebook-quotes-anniversary/) doesn’t necessarily equal box-office success. So there’s a lesson in all this: _Fahrenheit 9/11_ got the money and the talk, but _The Notebook_ is the one that gets the 10th-anniversary excitement. A movie that didn’t make much of a splash can still have a long life; after all, [engagement photo shoots ](http://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/the-very-best-in-notebook-themed-engagement-photos)inspired by Michael Moore aren’t exactly a trend we see happening any time soon. Or maybe the bigger lesson is vice versa. 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