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Top 1997 Limited Release Movies at the Domestic Box Office
See also: Top 1997 Domestic
Other Domestic Cumulative records for Limited Release Movies: All Time Domestic Limited Release - All Time Inf. Adj. Limited Release - Top 2024 Domestic Limited Release - Top 2025 Domestic Limited Release
This chart contains the total domestic box office for the top 100 limited release movies released in 1997.
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| Rank | Movie | Domestic Box Office |
Opening Weekend Theaters |
Max Theaters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amistad | $51,504,653 | 322 | 1,019 |
| 2 | The Full Monty | $45,950,122 | 6 | 783 |
| 3 | Boogie Nights | $26,410,771 | 2 | 1,003 |
| 4 | The Apostle | $20,733,485 | 4 | 751 |
| 5 | The Wings of the Dove | $14,196,971 | 7 | 704 |
| 6 | Chasing Amy | $12,006,514 | 3 | 553 |
| 7 | Deconstructing Harry | $10,686,841 | 10 | 445 |
| 8 | Shall We Dance? | $9,689,283 | 5 | 268 |
| 9 | Mrs. Brown | $9,217,930 | 6 | 432 |
| 10 | Ulee's Gold | $9,054,736 | 7 | 350 |
| 11 | The Ice Storm | $8,038,061 | 3 | 230 |
| 12 | The Boxer | $5,896,037 | 3 | 523 |
| 13 | Kolya | $5,770,254 | 3 | 173 |
| 14 | Kundun | $5,686,694 | 2 | 439 |
| 15 | Les Boys | $4,602,341 | 52 | 65 |
| 16 | The Sweet Hereafter | $4,306,697 | 2 | 95 |
| 17 | Kama Sutra | $4,109,095 | 10 | 81 |
| 18 | Lost Highway | $3,814,727 | 12 | 337 |
| 19 | A Smile Like Yours | $3,317,930 | 582 | 582 |
| 20 | Love! Valour! Compassion! | $2,936,611 | 14 | 90 |
| 21 | Waiting for Guffman | $2,922,988 | 3 | 64 |
| 22 | In the Company of Men | $2,883,661 | 8 | 117 |
| 23 | Marius et Jeannette | $2,835,851 | 5 | 5 |
| 24 | One Night Stand | $2,642,718 | 407 | 407 |
| 25 | Brassed Off | $2,589,188 | 12 | 231 |
| 26 | Afterglow | $2,537,428 | 7 | 356 |
| 27 | Career Girls | $2,506,039 | 8 | 148 |
| 28 | The Pillow Book | $2,372,744 | 7 | 65 |
| 29 | Ma Vie en Rose | $2,280,573 | 14 | 69 |
| 30 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | $2,221,994 | 8 | 135 |
| 31 | The Daytrippers | $2,096,256 | 2 | 52 |
| 32 | Paradise Road | $1,990,257 | 9 | 350 |
| 33 | Kiss Me, Guido | $1,916,898 | 5 | 59 |
| 34 | Rhyme & Reason | $1,591,687 | 280 | 280 |
| 35 | Temptress Moon | $1,084,532 | 5 | 46 |
| 36 | Blood and Wine | $1,083,350 | 166 | 166 |
| 37 | The Tango Lesson | $1,026,402 | 2 | 49 |
| 38 | Shiloh | $1,002,175 | 70 | 70 |
| 39 | The Hanging Garden | $925,756 | 5 | 20 |
| 40 | The Winter Guest | $870,290 | 3 | 21 |
| 41 | Anna Karenina | $858,553 | 5 | 34 |
| 42 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | $848,801 | 2 | 40 |
| 43 | Children of the Revolution | $845,391 | 6 | 59 |
| 44 | Nueba Yol 3 | $793,112 | 10 | 36 |
| 45 | Prisoner of the Mountains | $790,078 | 3 | 36 |
| 46 | Pippi Longstocking | $779,200 | 73 | 77 |
| 47 | Kiss or Kill | $771,091 | 6 | 73 |
| 48 | SubUrbia | $726,207 | 16 | 30 |
| 49 | Box of Moonlight | $720,717 | 1 | 68 |
| 50 | Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti | $686,121 | 6 | 34 |
| 51 | The Van | $621,093 | 3 | 25 |
| 52 | The House of Yes | $617,403 | 4 | 54 |
| 53 | Love Serenade | $604,523 | 5 | 35 |
| 54 | The Assignment | $600,843 | 34 | 60 |
| 55 | Star Maps | $592,573 | 5 | 39 |
| 56 | Prefontaine | $590,817 | 201 | 201 |
| 57 | Commandments | $548,562 | 269 | 269 |
| 58 | Dream With The Fishes | $542,909 | 7 | 32 |
| 59 | J'en Suis | $510,977 | 36 | 36 |
| 60 | The Myth of Fingerprints | $506,309 | 3 | 50 |
| 61 | Traveller | $500,649 | 6 | 63 |
| 62 | Boys Life 2 | $479,504 | 4 | 4 |
| 63 | The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo | $479,099 | 101 | 101 |
| 64 | Broken English | $476,070 | 10 | 29 |
| 65 | Kissed | $465,417 | 8 | 38 |
| 66 | Buscando un Sueño | $461,691 | 21 | 21 |
| 67 | Welcome to Sarajevo | $429,756 | 5 | 15 |
| 68 | Pink Flamingos | $413,802 | 11 | 13 |
| 69 | Sunday | $410,919 | 4 | 20 |
| 70 | Touch | $408,097 | 51 | 51 |
| 71 | Bent | $405,409 | 12 | 13 |
| 72 | The End of Violence | $386,673 | 5 | 27 |
| 73 | Albino Alligator | $353,480 | 12 | 17 |
| 74 | Grizzly Mountain | $340,556 | 142 | 142 |
| 75 | Unhook the Stars | $301,888 | 13 | 13 |
| 76 | Alive and Kicking | $294,467 | 4 | 16 |
| 77 | Different for Girls | $281,764 | 14 | 17 |
| 78 | Rien ne va plus | $245,359 | 10 | 10 |
| 79 | The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle… | $235,766 | 97 | 97 |
| 80 | The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca | $226,427 | 30 | 30 |
| 81 | Dancehall Queen | $223,426 | 3 | 5 |
| 82 | Critical Care | $220,175 | 10 | 34 |
| 83 | 4 Little Girls | $218,444 | 1 | 4 |
| 84 | Love and Other Catastrophes | $212,285 | 3 | 32 |
| 85 | Bliss | $207,751 | 11 | 12 |
| 86 | Sick | $191,833 | 4 | 9 |
| 87 | Latin Boys Go to Hell | $189,022 | 2 | 3 |
| 88 | Johns | $177,605 | 8 | 8 |
| 89 | Nowhere | $176,979 | 2 | 2 |
| 90 | Rough Magic | $171,979 | 28 | 30 |
| 91 | La conciergerie | $160,944 | 33 | 34 |
| 92 | Hotel de Love | $152,720 | 18 | 42 |
| 93 | Hard Eight | $142,356 | 29 | 29 |
| 94 | Shooting Porn | $133,048 | 1 | 1 |
| 95 | Kicked in the Head | $102,739 | 102 | 102 |
| 96 | Napoleon | $100,127 | 40 | 40 |
| 97 | Late Bloomers | $91,285 | 3 | 3 |
| 98 | Going All the Way | $89,823 | 4 | 17 |
| 99 | Matusalem II | $88,675 | 40 | 41 |
| 100 | Gummo | $87,403 | 3 | 5 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
Note: the records on this page only consider movies that were initially released in less than 600 theaters and did not have any expansion of more than 1,000 theaters in one week. We only consider movies that were released in 1995 or later, and do not consider movies that only had an IMAX release.
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.