Box Office Performance for First Run Features Movies in 1997

Rank	Movie	1997 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	A Life Apart: Hasidism in America	$197,338	42,993	$295,792
2	Hamsun	$40,000	8,715	$59,959
Total Gross of All Movies		$237,338
Total Tickets Sold			51,708
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices				$355,751

Note: This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 1997. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 1997. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 1996 will most likely earn money in 1996 and 1997. 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.