Box Office Performance for Sony Pictures Movies in 1996

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	1996 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	Jerry Maguire	Romantic Comedy	R	$83,006,355	18,779,718	$129,204,460
2	The Cable Guy	Comedy	PG-13	$60,240,295	13,629,026	$93,767,699
3	Jumanji	Adventure	PG	$42,958,045	9,719,015	$66,866,823
4	The Mirror Has Two Faces	Romantic Comedy	PG-13	$40,752,572	9,220,039	$63,433,868
5	Sense and Sensibility	Drama	PG	$38,645,957	8,743,429	$60,154,792
6	Matilda	Comedy	PG	$33,098,222	7,488,286	$51,519,408
7	Striptease	Comedy	R	$32,773,011	7,414,708	$51,013,191
8	The Craft	Thriller/Suspense	R	$24,769,466	5,603,952	$38,555,190
9	Fly Away Home	Drama	PG	$24,455,717	5,532,968	$38,066,820
10	The Juror	Thriller/Suspense	R	$22,730,924	5,142,743	$35,382,072
11	High School High	Comedy	PG-13	$20,883,060	4,724,674	$32,505,757
12	City Hall	Drama	R	$20,278,055	4,587,795	$31,564,030
13	Multiplicity	Comedy	PG-13	$20,133,326	4,555,051	$31,338,751
14	The Fan	Thriller/Suspense	R	$18,582,965	4,204,291	$28,925,522
15	Extreme Measures	Drama	R	$17,378,193	3,931,718	$27,050,220
16	Maximum Risk	Action	R	$14,102,929	3,190,708	$21,952,071
17	The Spitfire Grill	Drama	PG-13	$12,592,203	2,848,915	$19,600,535
18	Sunset Park	Drama	R	$10,128,314	2,291,474	$15,765,341
19	Mrs. Winterbourne	Romantic Comedy	PG-13	$10,039,566	2,271,395	$15,627,198
20	The American President	Romantic Comedy	PG-13	$8,967,526	2,028,852	$13,958,502
21	Ghosts of Mississippi	Drama	PG-13	$5,782,753	1,308,315	$9,001,207
22	Mary Reilly	Drama	R	$5,707,094	1,291,198	$8,883,442
23	Screamers	Action	R	$5,701,359	1,289,900	$8,874,512
24	Get on the Bus	Drama	R	$5,691,854	1,287,750	$8,859,720
25	Solo	Action	PG-13	$4,932,915	1,116,044	$7,678,383
26	To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday	Drama	PG-13	$4,137,645	936,119	$6,440,499
27	Dracula: Dead and Loving It	Comedy	PG-13	$2,416,071	546,622	$3,760,759
28	If Lucy Fell	Romantic Comedy	R	$2,410,162	545,286	$3,751,568
29	Othello	Drama	R	$2,319,934	524,872	$3,611,119
30	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Drama	R	$1,744,214	394,619	$2,714,979
31	Race the Sun	Drama	PG	$1,681,685	380,472	$2,617,647
32	Money Train	Action	R	$664,857	150,420	$1,034,890
33	The Last Supper	Comedy	R	$459,749	104,016	$715,630
34	Bottle Rocket	Adventure	R	$407,488	92,192	$634,281
35	To Die For	Black Comedy	R	$397,107	89,843	$618,120
36	Heavy Metal			$373,101	84,412	$580,755
37	Hamlet	Drama	PG-13	$344,863	78,023	$536,798
Total Gross of All Movies				$601,689,552
Total Tickets Sold					136,128,860
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$936,566,557

Note: This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 1996. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 1996. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 1995 will most likely earn money in 1995 and 1996. Click on the individual movie to see its total gross over all the years in which it played.

Each box office year ends on the first Sunday of the following year. The next year starts the following day (Monday). For example, the "2004 box office year" ended on Sunday, January 2, 2005.

Inflation-adjusted figures are based ticket sale estimates, and may not be precise due to rounding errors.