Box Office Performance for October Films Movies in 1997

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	1997 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	Secrets & Lies	Drama	R	$7,180,054	1,564,282	$10,762,260
2	Lost Highway	Thriller/Suspense	R	$3,796,699	827,168	$5,690,916
3	Breaking the Waves	Drama	R	$2,712,685	590,999	$4,066,073
4	Career Girls	Comedy	R	$2,506,039	545,978	$3,756,329
5	Female Perversions	Drama	R	$883,973	192,587	$1,324,999
6	Kiss or Kill	Thriller/Suspense	R	$771,091	167,994	$1,155,799
7	Traveller		R	$500,649	109,074	$750,429
8	Year of the Horse		R	$243,094	52,962	$364,379
9	Kicked in the Head		R	$102,739	22,383	$153,995
10	The Apostle	Drama	PG-13	$40,969	8,926	$61,411
Total Gross of All Movies				$18,737,992
Total Tickets Sold					4,082,353
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$28,086,589

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.