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All Time Domestic Box Office for Based on Play Movies
See also: Top Based on Play International - Top Based on Play Worldwide - Top Based on Play Weekend Domestic - Top Based on Play Day Domestic
Other Domestic Sources records: Top Original Screenplay Domestic - Top Based on Fiction Book/Short Story Domestic - Top Based on Comic/Graphic Novel Domestic - Top Remake Domestic - Top Based on TV Domestic - Top Based on Real Life Events Domestic - Top Based on Factual Book/Article Domestic
This chart contains the top 100 Based on Play movies based on the cumulative domestic box office.
See our Based on Play Theatrical Market Charts for more overviews regarding the domestic theatrical box office performance of Based on Play movies.
| Rank | Released | Movie | Domestic Box Office |
International Box Office |
Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2002 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | $241,438,208 | $133,451,826 | $374,890,034 |
| 2 | 1992 | A Few Good Men | $141,340,178 | $95,159,822 | $236,500,000 |
| 3 | 1981 | On Golden Pond | $119,285,432 | $0 | $119,285,432 |
| 4 | 1998 | You've Got Mail | $115,821,495 | $134,978,505 | $250,800,000 |
| 5 | 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | $106,593,296 | $0 | $106,593,296 |
| 6 | 2011 | Gnomeo and Juliet | $99,967,670 | $93,770,307 | $193,737,977 |
| 7 | 1978 | Heaven Can Wait | $98,800,000 | $0 | $98,800,000 |
| 8 | 2009 | Madea Goes To Jail | $90,508,336 | $0 | $90,508,336 |
| 9 | 1989 | Steel Magnolias | $83,759,091 | $11,392,847 | $95,151,938 |
| 10 | 2016 | Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween | $73,206,343 | $0 | $73,206,343 |
| 11 | 2006 | Madea's Family Reunion | $63,257,940 | $62,581 | $63,320,521 |
| 12 | 1986 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | $62,134,225 | $0 | $62,134,225 |
| 13 | 2010 | Why Did I Get Married Too? | $60,095,852 | $735,215 | $60,831,067 |
| 14 | 2016 | Fences | $57,682,904 | $6,599,977 | $64,282,881 |
| 15 | 2007 | Why Did I Get Married? | $55,204,525 | $729,653 | $55,934,178 |
| 16 | 2011 | Madea's Big Happy Family | $53,345,287 | $0 | $53,345,287 |
| 17 | 2013 | Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas | $52,543,354 | $0 | $52,543,354 |
| 18 | 2013 | Tyler Perry’s Temptation | $51,975,354 | $1,167,790 | $53,143,144 |
| 19 | 1984 | Amadeus | $51,973,029 | $0 | $51,973,029 |
| 20 | 2009 | I Can Do Bad All By Myself | $51,733,921 | $0 | $51,733,921 |
| 21 | 2004 | Finding Neverland | $51,676,606 | $63,359,502 | $115,036,108 |
| 22 | 2005 | Diary of a Mad Black Woman | $50,406,346 | $52,010 | $50,458,356 |
| 23 | 2014 | About Last Night | $48,637,684 | $1,808,176 | $50,445,860 |
| 24 | 2002 | Peter Pan: Return to Neverland | $48,430,258 | $61,432,424 | $109,862,682 |
| 25 | 1996 | Romeo+Juliet | $46,338,728 | $101,203,653 | $147,542,381 |
| 26 | 1961 | West Side Story | $43,700,000 | $0 | $43,700,000 |
| 27 | 1988 | Biloxi Blues | $43,184,798 | $8,500,000 | $51,684,798 |
| 28 | 2008 | Meet the Browns | $41,975,388 | $0 | $41,975,388 |
| 29 | 2011 | The Ides of March | $40,962,534 | $36,773,391 | $77,735,925 |
| 30 | 1987 | Roxanne | $39,148,164 | $0 | $39,148,164 |
| 31 | 1968 | Romeo and Juliet (1968) | $38,901,218 | $6,429 | $38,907,647 |
| 32 | 1986 | About Last Night... | $38,702,310 | $0 | $38,702,310 |
| 33 | 1999 | 10 Things I Hate About You | $38,177,966 | $22,236,059 | $60,414,025 |
| 34 | 2013 | August: Osage County | $37,738,810 | $13,000,000 | $50,738,810 |
| 35 | 2010 | For Colored Girls | $37,729,698 | $288,175 | $38,017,873 |
| 36 | 1991 | Other People's Money | $35,682,000 | $0 | $35,682,000 |
| 37 | 2004 | Closer | $33,987,757 | $82,189,938 | $116,177,695 |
| 38 | 2006 | She's the Man | $33,889,159 | $21,390,449 | $55,279,608 |
| 39 | 1994 | Nell | $33,592,700 | $0 | $33,592,700 |
| 40 | 2008 | Doubt | $33,446,470 | $19,744,631 | $53,191,101 |
| 41 | 1986 | Children of a Lesser God | $31,853,080 | $0 | $31,853,080 |
| 42 | 1969 | Paint Your Wagon | $31,678,778 | $0 | $31,678,778 |
| 43 | 1979 | Chapter Two | $30,000,000 | $0 | $30,000,000 |
| 44 | 1997 | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion | $29,235,353 | $0 | $29,235,353 |
| 45 | 1987 | Nuts | $28,866,028 | $0 | $28,866,028 |
| 46 | 2016 | Moonlight | $27,854,931 | $37,475,627 | $65,330,558 |
| 47 | 1969 | Cactus Flower | $25,889,208 | $0 | $25,889,208 |
| 48 | 1993 | Shadowlands | $25,842,377 | $0 | $25,842,377 |
| 49 | 1985 | Agnes of God | $25,627,836 | $0 | $25,627,836 |
| 50 | 1991 | Oscar | $23,562,716 | $0 | $23,562,716 |
| 51 | 2001 | Kingdom Come | $23,247,539 | $146,400 | $23,393,939 |
| 52 | 1986 | Crimes of the Heart | $22,905,000 | $0 | $22,905,000 |
| 53 | 1991 | Frankie and Johnny | $22,773,535 | $0 | $22,773,535 |
| 54 | 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | $22,549,338 | $0 | $22,549,338 |
| 55 | 1984 | A Soldier's Story | $22,100,000 | $0 | $22,100,000 |
| 56 | 1990 | Hamlet | $20,710,451 | $1,783,276 | $22,493,727 |
| 57 | 1992 | Prelude to a Kiss | $20,006,730 | $2,690,961 | $22,697,691 |
| 58 | 1967 | Barefoot in the Park | $19,994,515 | $0 | $19,994,515 |
| 59 | 1982 | Deathtrap | $19,282,000 | $0 | $19,282,000 |
| 60 | 1966 | Alfie | $18,871,300 | $0 | $18,871,300 |
| 61 | 2008 | Frost/Nixon | $18,622,031 | $9,830,914 | $28,452,945 |
| 62 | 1999 | An Ideal Husband | $18,542,974 | $12,798,209 | $31,341,183 |
| 63 | 2013 | Quartet | $18,388,357 | $37,790,578 | $56,178,935 |
| 64 | 1992 | Used People | $17,957,265 | $0 | $17,957,265 |
| 65 | 1993 | Born Yesterday | $17,760,754 | $0 | $17,760,754 |
| 66 | 1958 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | $17,570,324 | $0 | $17,570,324 |
| 67 | 1993 | A Bronx Tale | $17,239,789 | $0 | $17,239,789 |
| 68 | 1988 | Crossing Delancey | $16,262,000 | $0 | $16,262,000 |
| 69 | 1999 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | $16,071,990 | $8,939,655 | $25,011,645 |
| 70 | 2001 | O (Othello) | $16,017,403 | $0 | $16,017,403 |
| 71 | 1994 | The Madness of King George | $15,122,669 | $0 | $15,122,669 |
| 72 | 1974 | The Front Page | $15,000,000 | $0 | $15,000,000 |
| 73 | 1983 | Educating Rita | $14,688,000 | $0 | $14,688,000 |
| 74 | 1986 | Extremities | $13,418,091 | $0 | $13,418,091 |
| 75 | 1963 | Bye Bye Birdie | $13,129,412 | $0 | $13,129,412 |
| 76 | 1996 | Marvin's Room | $12,803,305 | $0 | $12,803,305 |
| 77 | 2012 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | $12,795,746 | $10,469,386 | $23,265,132 |
| 78 | 1986 | Brighton Beach Memoirs | $11,957,943 | $0 | $11,957,943 |
| 79 | 1993 | Strictly Ballroom | $11,738,000 | $0 | $11,738,000 |
| 80 | 1925 | The Big Parade | $11,000,000 | $11,000,000 | $22,000,000 |
| 81 | 1992 | Glengarry Glen Ross | $10,725,228 | $0 | $10,725,228 |
| 82 | 1989 | We're No Angels | $10,555,348 | $0 | $10,555,348 |
| 83 | 1943 | Casablanca | $10,462,500 | $0 | $10,462,500 |
| 84 | 1989 | Henry V | $10,161,099 | $15,602 | $10,176,701 |
| 85 | 2016 | The Lady in the Van | $10,021,175 | $31,495,270 | $41,516,445 |
| 86 | 1993 | Lost in Yonkers | $9,285,189 | $0 | $9,285,189 |
| 87 | 1964 | Becket | $9,164,370 | $0 | $9,164,370 |
| 88 | 2002 | The Importance of Being Earnest | $8,378,141 | $0 | $8,378,141 |
| 89 | 1965 | Do Not Disturb | $8,000,000 | $0 | $8,000,000 |
| 90 | 1951 | A Streetcar Named Desire | $8,000,000 | $0 | $8,000,000 |
| 91 | 1968 | Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | $7,988,000 | $0 | $7,988,000 |
| 92 | 2005 | Proof | $7,535,331 | $749,000 | $8,284,331 |
| 93 | 1985 | The Trip to Bountiful | $7,466,662 | $0 | $7,466,662 |
| 94 | 1960 | Midnight Lace | $7,400,000 | $0 | $7,400,000 |
| 95 | 1996 | The Crucible | $7,352,332 | $0 | $7,352,332 |
| 96 | 1992 | Sarafina! | $7,306,242 | $0 | $7,306,242 |
| 97 | 1953 | How to Marry a Millionaire | $7,300,000 | $0 | $7,300,000 |
| 98 | 2000 | Quills | $7,060,876 | $4,671,212 | $11,732,088 |
| 99 | 2002 | Kissing Jessica Stein | $7,025,722 | $2,319,339 | $9,345,061 |
| 100 | 2013 | Black Nativity | $7,018,188 | $266,947 | $7,285,135 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.
