Patel power: comedic doc back to number one

Meet the Patels from brother-sister filmmakers displaces Malala from top of box office

There is no denying the appeal of Meet the Patels. 

The humorous documentary from co-directors and siblings Geeta and Ravi Patel is once again the top non-fiction film at the box office. It swapped positions with He Named Me Malala, Davis Guggenheim's documentary, which had been number one the last three weeks.

Patels earned another $82,150 over the weekend, pushing its cume to $1,442,619, according to audience measurement firm Rentrak.

Malala dropped to second, bringing in another $61,820 over the weekend. In five weeks of release it has made just under $2.2 mil., Rentrak reported.

Rounding out the top five were A Ballerina's Tale -- the story of prima ballerina Misty Copeland; Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson's stirring and imaginative documentary about love, loss and her dog Lolabelle, and Meru, the dramatic tale of three climbers' attempt to scale a forbidding peak in the Himalayas.

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The full top 10:

Title                                                                                 Weekend gross          Cume

1. Meet the Patels                                                          $82,150                         $1,442,619
2. He Named Me Malala                                               $61,820                         $2,199,391
3. A Ballerina's Tale                                                        $13,252                          $72,684
4. Heart of a Dog                                                            $10,316                          $36,444
5. Meru                                                                             $8,172                            $2,312,351
6. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution $6,852                           $468,524
7. Amy                                                                              $3,212                             $8,368,745
8. Best of Enemies                                                         $2,956                            $889,332
9. Journey to the South Pacific                                    $1,348                             $7,057,903
10. Making Rounds                                                         $1,056                            $1,056