Box Office Performance for Sony Pictures Classics Movies in 1996

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	1996 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	Lone Star	Drama	R	$12,194,247	2,758,879	$21,767,555
2	Wings of Courage	Drama	G	$6,918,899	1,565,362	$12,350,706
3	Across The Sea of Time	Drama	G	$6,484,780	1,467,145	$11,575,774
4	Welcome to the Dollhouse	Comedy	R	$4,198,137	949,805	$7,493,961
5	When The Cat's Away	Comedy	R	$1,652,472	373,862	$2,949,771
6	Persuasion	Drama	PG	$1,410,163	319,041	$2,517,233
7	Beautiful Thing	Comedy	R	$1,363,753	308,541	$2,434,388
8	The Celluloid Closet	Documentary	R	$1,310,167	296,418	$2,338,738
9	Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao	Drama	R	$1,290,260	291,914	$2,303,201
10	La cité des enfants perdus	Adventure	R	$1,000,856	226,438	$1,786,596
11	La flor de mi secreto	Drama	R	$653,723	147,901	$1,166,939
12	Anne Frank Remembered	Documentary	PG	$606,713	137,265	$1,083,021
13	Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Drama	R	$440,907	99,753	$787,051
14	Manny & Lo		R	$363,731	82,292	$649,284
15	A Midwinter's Tale	Comedy	R	$288,122	65,186	$514,318
16	Denise Calls Up		PG-13	$168,614	38,148	$300,988
17	Thieves (Les Voleurs)	Drama	R	$128,974	29,180	$230,230
18	The Whole Wide World		PG	$41,194	9,320	$73,535
Total Gross of All Movies				$40,515,712
Total Tickets Sold					9,166,450
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$72,323,291

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.