Box Office Performance for Sony Pictures Classics Movies in 1997

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	1997 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	Across The Sea of Time	Drama	G	$5,064,440	1,103,364	$8,705,542
2	Waiting for Guffman	Comedy	R	$2,922,988	636,817	$5,024,486
3	In the Company of Men	Drama	R	$2,856,622	622,358	$4,910,405
4	Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun	Documentary	G	$2,570,742	560,075	$4,418,992
5	Wings of Courage	Drama	G	$1,865,734	406,478	$3,207,111
6	Thieves (Les Voleurs)	Drama	R	$810,330	176,542	$1,392,916
7	Fast, Cheap & Out of Control	Documentary	PG	$760,472	165,680	$1,307,215
8	Lone Star	Drama	R	$758,156	165,176	$1,303,239
9	Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti	Romantic Comedy	PG-13	$686,121	149,482	$1,179,413
10	Dream With The Fishes	Drama	R	$542,909	118,281	$933,237
11	The Myth of Fingerprints		R	$505,828	110,202	$869,494
12	SubUrbia	Comedy	R	$482,665	105,156	$829,681
13	Broken English	Drama	PG-13	$476,070	103,719	$818,343
14	The Tango Lesson	Drama	PG	$265,120	57,760	$455,726
15	Ma Vie en Rose	Drama	R	$244,717	53,315	$420,655
16	Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Drama	R	$229,657	50,034	$394,768
17	The Whole Wide World		PG	$119,572	26,051	$205,542
18	Beautiful Thing	Comedy	R	$96,544	21,034	$165,958
19	Afterglow	Romantic Comedy	R	$50,052	10,905	$86,040
Total Gross of All Movies				$21,308,739
Total Tickets Sold					4,642,429
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$36,628,765

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.