The Top Movies, Weekend of December 20, 1996

		Movie	Distributor	Genre	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	(new)	Beavis and Butt-head Do America	Paramount Pictures	Comedy	$20,114,233		2,190	$9,185	$20,114,233	3
2	(1)	Jerry Maguire	Sony Pictures	Romantic Comedy	$13,125,660	-23.17%	2,531	$5,186	$36,287,093	10
3	(3)	101 Dalmatians	Buena Vista	Comedy	$6,989,334	-21.76%	2,901	$2,409	$84,779,528	26
4	(new)	Scream	Miramax	Horror	$6,354,586		1,413	$4,497	$6,354,261	3
5	(new)	One Fine Day	20th Century Fox	Romantic Comedy	$6,226,430		1,946	$3,200	$6,226,430	3
6	(4)	The Preacher's Wife	Buena Vista	Drama	$5,182,161	-32.26%	1,989	$2,605	$15,287,167	10
7	(2)	Mars Attacks!	Warner Bros.	Comedy	$4,674,116	-50.19%	1,955	$2,391	$16,655,376	10
8	(6)	Jingle All the Way	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$3,114,864	-23.13%	2,112	$1,475	$47,405,964	31
9	(new)	My Fellow Americans	Warner Bros.	Comedy	$2,860,334		1,915	$1,494	$2,860,334	3
10	(5)	Daylight	Universal	Action	$2,437,750	-41.08%	1,990	$1,225	$20,398,315	17
11	(7)	Star Trek: First Contact	Paramount Pictures	Adventure	$2,306,509	-32.80%	1,569	$1,470	$80,389,431	31
12	(8)	Ransom	Buena Vista	Action	$1,798,788	-39.63%	1,326	$1,357	$120,335,313	45
13	(10)	The English Patient	Miramax	Drama	$1,670,429	-6.15%	612	$2,729	$18,433,824	38
14	(9)	Space Jam	Warner Bros.	Comedy	$1,269,691	-45.91%	1,579	$804	$78,329,082	38
15	(25)	The Crucible	20th Century Fox	Drama	$641,569	+762.22%	137	$4,683	$962,496	24
16	(26)	The First Wives Club	Paramount Pictures	Comedy	$431,366	+502.31%	712	$606	$102,147,985	94
17	(11)	The Mirror Has Two Faces	Sony Pictures	Romantic Comedy	$353,012	-64.79%	642	$550	$39,813,224	38
18	(13)	Romeo & Juliet	20th Century Fox	Drama	$292,343	-49.71%	472	$619	$43,215,364	52
19	(re-entry)	Fly Away Home	Sony Pictures	Drama	$263,095		409	$643	$24,003,452	101
20	(12)	Set It Off	New Line	Drama	$234,208	-61.60%	260	$901	$33,756,934	47
21	(re-entry)	D3: The Mighty Ducks	Buena Vista	Comedy	$206,444		561	$368	$21,331,630	80
22	(new)	Ghosts of Mississippi	Sony Pictures	Drama	$168,012		21	$8,001	$168,012	3
23	(37)	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Buena Vista	Adventure	$163,594	+380.93%	410	$399	$99,430,242	185
24	(20)	Sleepers	Warner Bros.	Drama	$156,363	+44.15%	499	$313	$51,981,712	66
25	(31)	The Long Kiss Goodnight	New Line	Action	$140,111	+169.39%	361	$388	$32,362,059	73
26	(17)	Shine	Fine Line	Drama	$131,501	-2.78%	10	$13,150	$1,140,418	31
27	(27)	Breaking The Waves	October Films	Drama	$128,200	+83.16%	40	$3,205	$706,386	40
28	(14)	Swingers	Miramax	Comedy	$118,408	-28.49%	65	$1,822	$3,629,725	66
29	(21)	Secrets & Lies	October Films	Drama	$114,381	+8.89%	62	$1,845	$5,100,235	86
30	(18)	Ridicule	Miramax	Drama	$102,742	-18.31%	31	$3,314	$557,198	24
31	(19)	Big Night	Goldwyn Entertainment	Drama	$92,136	-26.24%	80	$1,152	$10,858,772	94
32	(16)	First Kid	Buena Vista	Comedy	$63,694	-53.94%	191	$333	$25,975,646	115
33	(15)	That Thing You Do!	20th Century Fox	Drama	$62,063	-55.77%	165	$376	$25,296,891	80
34	(new)	Marvin's Room	Miramax	Drama	$59,739		6	$9,957	$75,279	5
35	(new)	La cérémonie	New Yorker	Drama	$49,843		6	$8,307	$49,843	5
36	(29)	Microcosmos	Miramax	Documentary	$47,049	-23.29%	32	$1,470	$949,564	73
37	(38)	Across The Sea of Time	Sony Pictures Classics	Drama	$46,486	+40.39%	6	$7,748	$7,515,128	430
38	(23)	Jack	Buena Vista	Drama	$40,208	-54.16%	136	$296	$58,355,806	136
39	(30)	Phenomenon	Buena Vista	Drama	$32,532	-44.94%	93	$350	$104,407,759	171
40	(34)	Michael Collins	Warner Bros.	Drama	$27,255	-38.61%	46	$593	$10,852,774	73
41	(44)	Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Sony Pictures Classics	Drama	$24,375	+18.02%	10	$2,438	$341,238	45
42	(24)	The Funeral	October Films	Drama	$23,885	-69.87%	39	$612	$1,106,233	52
43	(re-entry)	High School High	Sony Pictures	Comedy	$23,876		66	$362	$20,535,952	59
44	(33)	Beautiful Thing	Sony Pictures Classics	Comedy	$23,051	-49.07%	13	$1,773	$1,363,753	75
45	(22)	The Rich Man's Wife	Buena Vista	Thriller/Suspense	$22,333	-78.58%	71	$315	$8,471,450	101
46	(32)	The Ghost and the Darkness	Paramount Pictures	Action	$21,545	-56.07%	72	$299	$37,709,317	73
47	(re-entry)	Bitter Sugar	First Look	Drama	$18,500		12	$1,542	$354,572	73
48	(40)	Surviving Picasso	Warner Bros.	Drama	$17,834	-34.83%	22	$811	$1,985,001	94
49	(re-entry)	The Associate	Buena Vista	Comedy	$17,534		29	$605	$12,384,525	59
50	(41)	Citizen Ruth	Miramax	Comedy	$17,055	-36.15%	4	$4,264	$56,747	10
51	(re-entry)	Jude	Gramercy		$15,703		17	$924	$407,072	66
52	(42)	Bound	Gramercy	Thriller/Suspense	$15,034	-41.78%	24	$626	$3,798,532	80
53	(new)	In Love and War	New Line	Drama	$2,515		1	$2,515	$4,112	5