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1991 Movies

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1991.  Obviously many movies made in 1990 earned box office dollars in 1991.  On the other side many movies made in 1991 made money in 1992 and later.   This page will looks at over 200 movies made in 1991.  The movies are listed in two massive tables that lets you rank the movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.

1991 Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Year Movie (Year) Rating S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1991 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
AA Best Picture Win
1991 Beauty and the Beast (1991)
AA Best Picture Nom
1991 Terminator 2 (1991)
1991 JFK (1991)
AA Best Picture Nom
1991 The Prince of Tides (1991)
AA Best Picture Nom
1991 Cape Fear (1991)
1991 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
1991 Bugsy (1991)
AA Best Picture Nom
1991 Boyz N the Hood (1991)
1991 Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
1991 City Slickers (1991)
1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
1991 What About Bob? (1991)
1991 The Addams Family (1991)
1991 Thelma & Louise (1991)
1991 Father of the Bride (1991)
1991 Backdraft (1991)
1991 Hot Shots! (1991)
1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
1991 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
1991 My Girl (1991)
1991 The Fisher King (1991)
1991 The Last Boy Scout (1991)
1991 Doc Hollywood (1991)
1991 Hook (1991)
1991 New Jack City (1991)
1991 The Rocketeer (1991)
1991 Dead Again (1991)
1991 Point Break (1991)
1991 The Doctor (1991)
1991 L.A. Story (1991)
1991 Grand Canyon (1991)
1991 Soapdish (1991)
1991 Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
1991 Jungle Fever (1991)
1991 White Fang (1991)
1991 Defending Your Life (1991)
1991 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
1991 The Doors (1991)
1991 Little Man Tate (1991)
1991 Regarding Henry (1991)
1991 Frankie and Johnny (1991)
1991 The Commitments (1991)
1991 Rambling Rose (1991)
1991 The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
1991 Barton Fink (1991)
1991 Class Action (1991)
1991 Enchanted April (1991)
1991 Out for Justice (1991)
1991 Ricochet (1991)

1991 Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort 1991 Movies by movie titles and movie trailers
  • Sort 1991 Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1991 Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort 1991 Movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each 1990 Movies received and how many Oscar® wins each 1991 Movies received.
  • Sort 1991 Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking Score (UMR).  Our UMR score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

 

Detailed Table

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R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) UMR Score
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) B.O. Rank by Year Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score S
1 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
AA Best Picture Win
Jodie Foster &
Anthony Hopkins
130.7 388.2 809.80 4 91 07 / 05 99.9
2 Beauty and the Beast (1991)
AA Best Picture Nom
Angela Lansbury &
Robby Benson
219.0 650.1 1,261.80 1 90 06 / 02 99.6
3 Terminator 2 (1991) Arnold Schwarzenegger &
Linda Hamilton
204.8 608.2 1,543.50 2 89 06 / 04 99.4
4 JFK (1991)
AA Best Picture Nom
Kevin Costner &
Gary Oldman
70.4 209.0 609.90 17 81 08 / 02 99.2
5 The Prince of Tides (1991)
AA Best Picture Nom
Nick Nolte &
Barbra Streisand
74.8 222.1 403.20 16 70 07 / 00 97.3
5 Cape Fear (1991) Robert DeNiro &
Nick Nolte
79.1 234.8 541.20 12 77 02 / 00 96.9
8 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) William Shatner &
Leonard Nimoy
74.9 222.4 287.70 15 76 02 / 00 96.7
9 Bugsy (1991)
AA Best Picture Nom
Warren Beatty &
Annette Bening
49.1 145.8 145.80 24 76 10 / 02 96.2
10 Boyz N the Hood (1991) Ice Cube &
Laurence Fishburne
57.5 170.7 170.80 22 84 02 / 00 96.0
9 Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) Jessica Tandy 82.4 244.7 354.60 11 75 00 / 00 95.9
9 City Slickers (1991) Billy Crystal &
Jack Palance
124.0 368.3 531.60 5 69 01 / 01 94.9
10 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) Leslie Nielsen 86.9 258.1 258.10 10 71 00 / 00 94.8
14 What About Bob? (1991) Bill Murray &
Richard Dreyfuss
63.7 189.2 189.20 19 73 00 / 00 94.5
14 The Addams Family (1991) Anjelica Huston &
Raul Julia
113.5 337.0 568.60 7 66 01 / 00 93.7
13 Thelma & Louise (1991) Susan Sarandon &
Geena Davis
45.4 134.7 134.70 27 82 06 / 01 93.5
15 Father of the Bride (1991) Steve Martin &
Diane Keaton
89.3 265.2 265.20 9 65 00 / 00 92.5
16 Backdraft (1991) Kurt Russell &
William Baldwin
77.9 231.2 452.40 14 60 03 / 00 92.1
19 Hot Shots! (1991) Charlie Sheen &
Cary Elwes
69.5 206.3 526.90 18 62 00 / 00 92.1
17 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) Kevin Costner &
Morgan Freeman
165.5 491.4 1,159.40 3 61 01 / 00 92.0
20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) Paige Turco &
David Warner
78.7 233.5 301.80 13 60 00 / 00 91.1
23 My Girl (1991) Anna Chlumsky &
Macaulay Culkin
59.5 176.6 176.60 21 66 00 / 00 90.5
20 The Fisher King (1991) Jeff Bridges &
Robin Williams
41.9 124.4 124.40 30 76 05 / 01 90.4
25 The Last Boy Scout (1991) Bruce Willis &
Halle Berry
59.5 176.7 388.20 20 63 00 / 00 89.4
24 Doc Hollywood (1991) Michael J. Fox &
Julie Warner
54.8 162.8 162.80 23 67 00 / 00 89.3
21 Hook (1991) Dustin Hoffman &
Robin Williams
119.7 355.3 893.30 6 49 05 / 00 88.6
26 New Jack City (1991) Judd Nelson &
Wesley Snipes
47.6 141.4 141.40 25 70 00 / 00 88.3
28 The Rocketeer (1991) Billy Campbell &
Jennifer Connelly
46.7 138.7 138.70 26 67 00 / 00 86.5
27 Dead Again (1991) Robin Williams &
Emma Thompson
38.0 112.9 112.90 34 75 00 / 00 86.4
30 Point Break (1991) Keanu Reeves &
Patrick Swayze
43.2 128.3 248.00 28 68 00 / 00 85.6
31 The Doctor (1991) William Hurt 38.1 113.2 113.20 32 72 00 / 00 85.4
32 L.A. Story (1991) Steve Martin 28.9 85.7 85.70 45 78 00 / 00 84.7
32 Grand Canyon (1991) Steve Martin &
Danny Glover
33.2 98.7 98.70 42 74 01 / 00 84.6
35 Soapdish (1991) Sally Field &
Kevin Kline
36.5 108.3 108.30 35 69 00 / 00 83.8
33 Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) Julia Roberts &
Patrick Bergin
101.6 301.7 519.60 8 40 00 / 00 83.7
34 Jungle Fever (1991) Wesley Snipes &
Annabella Sciorra
32.5 96.4 130.30 43 73 00 / 00 83.6
38 White Fang (1991) Ethan Hawke &
Klaus Maria Brandauer
34.8 103.3 103.30 37 67 00 / 00 81.7
36 Defending Your Life (1991) Meryl Streep &
Albert Brooks
16.4 48.6 48.60 69 83 00 / 00 81.3
41 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) Keanu Reeves &
Alex Winter
38.0 112.9 112.90 33 62 00 / 00 80.8
39 The Doors (1991) Meg Ryan &
Val Kilmer
34.4 102.2 102.20 38 65 00 / 00 80.6
37 Little Man Tate (1991) Jodie Foster &
Dianne Wiest
25.0 74.3 74.30 53 74 00 / 00 80.6
41 Regarding Henry (1991) Harrison Ford &
Annette Bening
43.0 127.7 127.70 29 55 00 / 00 79.0
41 Frankie and Johnny (1991) Al Pacino &
Michelle Pfeiffer
22.8 67.6 67.60 57 72 00 / 00 78.2
45 The Commitments (1991) Robert Arkins &
Michael Aherne
14.9 44.3 44.30 77 76 01 / 00 76.3
42 Rambling Rose (1991) Laura Dern &
Robert Duvall
6.3 18.6 18.60 116 83 02 / 00 76.2
42 The Double Life of Veronique (1991) Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski 2.0 5.9 5.90 150 88 00 / 00 76.0
45 Barton Fink (1991) Michael Lerner &
John Goodman
6.2 18.3 18.30 118 82 03 / 00 75.9
49 Class Action (1991) Gene Hackman &
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
24.3 72.1 72.10 54 67 00 / 00 75.7
48 Enchanted April (1991) Alfred Molina &
Joan Plowright
13.2 39.2 39.20 85 74 03 / 00 74.8
49 Out for Justice (1991) Steven Seagal 39.7 117.8 117.80 31 50 00 / 00 74.0
53 Ricochet (1991) Denzel Washington &
John Lithgow
21.8 64.6 64.60 61 66 00 / 00 72.9
50 My Own Private Idaho (1991) Keanu Reeves &
River Phoenix
6.4 19.0 19.00 115 80 00 / 00 72.2
50 Homicide (1991) Joe Mantegna &
William H. Macy
3.0 8.8 8.80 137 83 00 / 00 72.0
53 The People Under the Stairs (1991) Brandon Quintin Adams &
Everett McGill
24.2 71.9 71.90 55 63 00 / 00 71.9
56 The Hard Way (1991) Michael J. Fox &
James Woods
25.9 76.9 76.90 48 61 00 / 00 71.4
59 Mon Pere Ce Heros (1991) Gérard Depardieu &
Marie Gillain
25.5 75.7 75.70 50 61 00 / 00 71.1
54 Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Li Gong &
Jingwu Ma
2.6 7.7 7.70 144 82 00 / 00 70.6
56 Paradise (1991) Melanie Griffith 18.6 55.3 55.30 66 67 00 / 00 70.5
53 Proof (1991) Hugo Weaving &
Geneviève Picot
0.5 1.6 1.60 187 83 00 / 00 70.1
59 The Five Heartbeats (1991) Robert Townsend &
Michael Wright
8.8 26.0 26.00 103 75 00 / 00 69.4
59 Armour of God 2: Operation Condor (1991) 10.4 30.9 147.00 94 73 00 / 00 68.8
65 Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) Robert Englund 34.9 103.5 103.50 36 49 00 / 00 67.4
64 Only the Lonely (1991) John Candy &
Maureen O'Hara
21.8 64.8 64.80 60 61 00 / 00 67.4
60 The Man in the Moon (1991) Reese Witherspoon 2.9 8.5 8.50 139 79 00 / 00 67.4
63 Once Around (1991) Richard Dreyfuss &
Holly Hunter
14.9 44.1 44.10 78 67 00 / 00 67.2
66 Deceived (1991) Goldie Hawn &
John Heard
28.7 85.3 85.30 46 54 00 / 00 66.7
73 Curly Sue (1991) Steve Carell &
James Belushi
33.7 100.0 100.00 40 48 00 / 00 65.6
62 City of Hope (1991) Vincent Spano &
Tony Lo Bianco
1.3 4.0 4.00 158 78 00 / 00 65.2
68 Mississippi Masala (1991) Denzel Washington &
Sarita Choudhury
7.3 21.7 21.70 110 72 00 / 00 64.6
72 Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991) Cliff Robertson 7.3 21.7 21.70 111 72 00 / 00 64.1
69 Impromptu (1991) Hugh Grant &
Judy Davis
4.1 12.1 12.10 131 75 00 / 00 64.0
68 Night on Earth (1991) Winona Ryder &
Gena Rowlands
2.0 6.0 6.00 149 77 00 / 00 64.0
71 Tous les matins du monde (1991) Gérard Depardieu &
Jean-Pierre Marielle
3.1 9.2 33.10 136 76 00 / 00 64.0
69 Flirting (1991) Noah Taylor &
Thandie Newton
2.4 7.2 7.20 145 76 00 / 00 64.0
73 Black Robe (1991) Lothaire Bluteau &
Aden Young
8.2 24.4 24.40 106 71 00 / 00 63.9
75 Mediterraneo (1991) Diego Abatantuono &
Claudio Bigagli
4.5 13.5 13.50 126 74 00 / 00 63.4
76 Hearts of Darkness (1991) Documentary 1.3 3.9 3.90 159 77 00 / 00 63.2
77 Delicatessen (1991) Marie-Laure Dougnac &
Dominique Pinon
1.8 5.3 5.30 152 76 00 / 00 62.3
81 Mortal Thoughts (1991) Demi Moore &
Glenne Headly
18.8 55.8 92.40 65 59 00 / 00 61.6
79 Europa (1991) 1.1 3.1 3.10 166 75 00 / 00 61.0
80 Guilty by Suspicion (1991) Annette Bening &
Robert DeNiro
9.5 28.1 28.10 98 67 00 / 00 60.8
78 Meeting Venus (1991) Glenn Close 1.0 3.0 3.00 169 75 00 / 00 60.7
86 F/X2 (1991) Bryan Brown &
Brian Dennehy
21.1 62.6 62.60 62 56 00 / 00 60.5
80 Hear My Song (1991) Ned Beatty &
Adrian Dunbar
4.3 12.8 12.80 128 72 00 / 00 60.1
83 Naked Lunch (1991) Roy Scheider &
Peter Weller
2.6 7.8 7.80 143 73 00 / 00 59.6
87 Shattered (1991) Tom Berenger 11.5 34.2 34.20 88 65 00 / 00 59.6
84 Slacker (1991) Richard Linklater &
Rudy Basquez
1.2 3.6 3.60 162 74 00 / 00 59.5
85 Dogfight (1991) River Phoenix &
Lili Taylor
0.4 1.2 1.20 196 75 00 / 00 59.2
86 29th Street (1991) Anthony LaPaglia &
Danny Aiello
2.1 6.3 6.30 147 73 00 / 00 58.5
89 La Belle Noiseuse (1991) Emmanuelle Béart 0.4 1.2 1.20 194 74 00 / 00 58.2
97 Double Impact (1991) Jean-Claude Van Damme 30.1 89.4 239.00 44 46 00 / 00 57.2
95 Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) Christina Applegate &
Joanna Cassidy
25.2 74.8 74.80 51 50 00 / 00 56.9
103 Dying Young (1991) Julia Roberts 33.7 100.0 244.30 41 42 00 / 00 56.4
93 Rush (1991) Jason Patric &
Jennifer Jason Leigh
7.2 21.5 21.50 112 67 00 / 00 56.4
89 The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 255 73 00 / 00 56.0
109 King Ralph (1991) Peter O'Toole &
John Goodman
34.0 101.0 155.80 39 41 00 / 00 55.8
102 An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) James Stewart 22.2 65.8 121.00 59 52 00 / 00 55.7
94 Late for Dinner (1991) Peter Berg &
Brian Wimmer
8.9 26.4 26.40 102 65 00 / 00 55.6
90 Van Gogh (1991) Jacques Dutronc &
Alexandra London
0.2 0.6 0.60 206 73 00 / 00 55.6
100 The Perfect Weapon (1991) Mako 14.1 41.7 41.70 83 60 00 / 00 55.5
92 Let Him Have It (1991) Tom Courtenay &
Christopher Eccleston
0.1 0.3 0.30 217 73 00 / 00 55.5
102 Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) Madonna 15.0 44.6 86.10 75 59 00 / 00 55.2
108 Other People's Money (1991) Danny DeVito &
Gregory Peck
25.7 76.3 76.30 49 47 00 / 00 55.1
106 Toy Soldiers (1991) Sean Astin 15.1 44.8 44.80 74 58 00 / 00 54.7
96 Johnny Stecchino (1991) Roberto Benigni &
Nicoletta Braschi
0.6 1.9 1.90 180 72 00 / 00 54.6
109 Not Without My Daughter (1991) Sally Field 14.8 43.9 43.90 80 58 00 / 00 54.3
99 Closet Land (1991) Alan Rickman 0.3 0.8 0.80 202 72 00 / 00 54.0
101 The Indian Runner (1991) Charles Bronson &
Sean Penn
0.2 0.6 0.60 207 72 00 / 00 53.9
105 Until the End of the World (1991) William Hurt 0.8 2.5 2.50 174 71 00 / 00 53.1
106 Thousand Pieces of Gold (1991) Rosalind Chao &
Chris Cooper
0.7 2.1 2.10 177 71 00 / 00 52.9
114 A Kiss Before Dying (1991) Matt Dillon 15.4 45.8 45.80 73 57 00 / 00 52.4
118 Pure Luck (1991) Danny Glover 22.6 67.2 67.20 58 50 00 / 00 52.1
110 The Inner Circle (1991) Tom Hulce &
Lolita Davidovich
0.1 0.3 0.30 215 71 00 / 00 51.9
111 Rhapsody in August (1991) Richard Gere 0.5 1.5 1.50 189 70 00 / 00 51.3
112 Cabeza de Vaca (1991) Juan Diego &
Daniel Giménez Cacho
0.8 2.3 2.30 175 70 00 / 00 51.1
113 Edward II (1991) Steven Waddington &
Kevin Collins
0.7 2.1 2.10 178 70 00 / 00 51.0
115 Prospero's Books (1991) John Gielgud &
Michael Clark
1.8 5.2 5.20 153 69 00 / 00 51.0
116 Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991) Doug E. Doug &
Mario Joyner
0.5 1.6 1.60 186 70 00 / 00 50.8
122 Ernest Scared Stupid (1991) Jim Varney &
Eartha Kitt
14.1 42.0 42.00 82 57 00 / 00 50.2
117 Rubin & Ed (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 240 70 00 / 00 49.7
118 Madame Bovary (1991) Isabelle Huppert &
Jean-François Balmer
1.9 5.8 5.80 151 67 01 / 00 48.9
125 Problem Child 2 (1991) John Ritter &
Michael Oliver
25.1 74.5 74.50 52 46 00 / 00 48.7
124 A Rage in Harlem (1991) Danny Glover 10.4 31.0 31.00 93 59 00 / 00 48.6
121 Danzón (1991) María Rojo &
Carmen Salinas
0.5 1.3 1.30 191 69 00 / 00 48.6
122 At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) John Lithgow &
Tom Berenger
1.3 4.0 4.00 157 68 00 / 00 48.3
128 Mobsters (1991) Anthony Quinn &
Christian Slater
20.2 60.1 60.10 63 50 00 / 00 47.9
124 Stepping Out (1991) Shelley Winters 0.2 0.7 0.70 204 68 00 / 00 47.4
129 Billy Bathgate (1991) Bruce Willis &
Nicole Kidman
15.6 46.2 82.90 70 54 00 / 00 47.3
127 Warlock (1991) Time Travel Movies 9.1 27.0 27.00 101 60 00 / 00 46.8
127 The Josephine Baker Story (1991)
HBO Movie
Lynn Whitfield &
Louis Gossett Jr.
0.1 0.2 0.20 218 68 00 / 00 46.5
137 House Party 2 (1991) Martin Lawrence 19.4 57.7 57.70 64 49 00 / 00 45.5
130 Little Noises (1991) 0.1 0.2 0.20 226 67 00 / 00 45.1
134 Stone Cold (1991) Lance Henriksen &
William Forsythe
9.2 27.2 27.20 100 59 00 / 00 45.0
129 The Princess and the Goblin (1991) Claire Bloom 2.1 6.3 6.30 148 65 00 / 00 44.8
131 My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991) Scott Glenn &
Kate Capshaw
3.6 10.7 10.70 133 64 00 / 00 44.8
133 The Adjuster (1991) Elias Koteas &
Arsinée Khanjian
0.4 1.2 1.20 195 67 00 / 00 44.5
136 Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) Mickey Rourke 7.4 22.1 22.10 109 60 00 / 00 44.0
135 Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) 0.1 0.2 8.20 230 67 00 / 00 44.0
136 Voyager (1991) Sam Shepard &
Julie Delpy
0.5 1.5 1.50 188 66 00 / 00 43.9
139 High Heels (1991) Victoria Abril &
Marisa Paredes
1.7 5.1 5.10 154 65 00 / 00 42.8
143 Mystery Date (1991) Ethan Hawke &
Teri Polo
6.2 18.3 18.30 117 60 00 / 00 41.4
139 Poison (1991) Edith Meeks &
Larry Maxwell
0.8 2.3 2.30 176 65 00 / 00 41.2
148 Switch (1991) Ellen Barkin &
Jimmy Smits
15.5 46.2 46.20 72 51 00 / 00 41.2
147 The Super (1991) Joe Pesci 11.0 32.7 32.70 92 55 00 / 00 40.8
155 For the Boys (1991) Bette Midler &
James Caan
17.9 53.0 68.90 67 48 01 / 00 40.7
143 The Rapture (1991) Mimi Rogers &
David Duchovny
1.3 3.8 3.80 160 64 00 / 00 40.5
140 The Miracle (1991) Beverly D'Angelo 0.8 2.5 2.50 173 64 00 / 00 40.4
146 Run (1991) Kelly Preston 4.4 13.1 13.10 127 61 00 / 00 40.3
156 Flight of the Intruder (1991) Danny Glover &
Willem Dafoe
14.6 43.3 43.30 81 51 00 / 00 40.3
150 He Said, She Said (1991) Kevin Bacon &
Sharon Stone
9.8 29.1 29.10 95 56 00 / 00 40.2
164 Necessary Roughness (1991) Jason Bateman &
Scott Bakula
26.3 78.0 78.00 47 40 00 / 00 40.2
142 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991) Vanessa Redgrave &
Keith Carradine
0.2 0.5 0.50 208 65 00 / 00 40.1
144 By Dawn's Early Light (1991)
HBO Movie
James Earl Jones 0.0 0.1 0.10 232 65 00 / 00 40.0
153 Labyrinth (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 237 64 00 / 00 39.1
152 Joey Takes A Cab (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 266 64 00 / 00 39.0
153 The Object of Beauty (1991) John Malkovich &
Andie MacDowell
5.1 15.3 15.30 122 60 00 / 00 39.0
149 Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) Helena Bonham Carter &
Judy Davis
1.4 4.2 4.20 156 63 00 / 00 38.9
151 The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1991) Eric Bogosian 0.6 1.7 1.70 183 64 00 / 00 38.7
167 All I Want for Christmas (1991) Lauren Bacall &
Jamey Sheridan
14.8 44.0 44.00 79 50 00 / 00 38.0
163 Career Opportunities (1991) Frank Whaley &
Jennifer Connelly
11.3 33.7 33.70 89 53 00 / 00 38.0
159 Samantha (1991)
Limited Release
Hector Elizondo &
Earl Boen
0.0 0.1 0.10 243 64 00 / 00 37.9
163 If Looks Could Kill (1991) Linda Hunt 7.8 23.1 23.10 107 57 00 / 00 37.9
160 The Lost Language of Cranes (1991) 0.1 0.1 0.10 225 64 00 / 00 37.8
157 Close My Eyes (1991) Alan Rickman &
Clive Owen
0.1 0.4 0.40 211 64 00 / 00 37.8
158 Sólo con tu pareja (1991) Directed by Alfonso Cuarón 0.0 0.1 0.10 249 64 00 / 00 37.8
170 Child's Play 3 (1991) Justin Whalin &
Perrey Reeves
15.0 44.4 44.40 76 50 00 / 00 37.0
168 Rock-A-Doodle (1991) Glen Campbell &
Christopher Plummer
11.7 34.6 34.60 87 53 00 / 00 36.9
161 Where the Day Takes You (1991) Dermot Mulroney &
Robert Knepper
0.4 1.2 1.20 197 63 00 / 00 36.8
173 Body Parts (1991) Jeff Fahey &
Lindsay Duncan
9.2 27.3 27.30 99 55 00 / 00 36.6
165 Rich Girl (1991) Jill Schoelen &
Don Michael Paul
0.6 1.7 1.70 185 63 00 / 00 36.4
166 The Reflecting Skin (1991) Viggo Mortensen 0.0 0.1 0.10 235 63 00 / 00 36.1
175 Clearcut (1991)
Film Festival Circuit Only
Graham Greene 0.0 0.1 0.10 269 63 00 / 00 35.7
177 Paris Trout (1991)
Showtime Movies
Dennis Hopper 0.0 0.1 0.10 244 63 00 / 00 35.7
169 London Kills Me (1991) Justin Chadwick &
Steven Mackintosh
0.2 0.5 0.50 209 63 00 / 00 35.6
177 Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) Dolph Lundgren 2.3 6.8 6.80 146 61 00 / 00 35.5
173 Once Upon A Time In China (1991) 0.1 0.2 88.30 222 63 00 / 00 35.4
176 Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991)
HBO Movie
David Strathairn 0.0 0.1 0.10 248 63 00 / 00 35.1
172 Motorama (1991) Michael J. Pollard 0.0 0.1 0.10 254 63 00 / 00 35.0
175 Shuttlecock (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 257 63 00 / 00 34.8
179 Defenseless (1991) Sam Shepard 6.4 19.0 19.00 114 57 00 / 00 34.3
179 Kafka (1991) Jeremy Irons 1.1 3.1 3.10 167 61 00 / 00 34.0
180 Shadows and Fog (1991) Woody Allen &
Mia Farrow
2.7 8.1 8.10 141 60 00 / 00 33.9
183 Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
HBO Movie
Julianne Moore 0.0 0.1 0.10 263 62 00 / 00 33.3
182 American Friends (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 233 62 00 / 00 32.9
182 Rover Dangerfield (1991) 0.1 0.1 0.10 229 62 00 / 00 32.9
184 Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991) George T. Odom &
Ann D. Sanders
2.7 8.1 8.10 142 59 00 / 00 31.8
184 Sweet Talker (1991) Bryan Brown &
Karen Allen
0.4 1.1 1.10 198 61 00 / 00 31.4
185 Hard Promises (1991) Sissy Spacek &
William L. Petersen
0.3 0.9 0.90 200 61 00 / 00 31.3
188 By the Sword (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 238 61 00 / 00 31.1
189 Popcorn (1991) Jill Schoelen &
Tom Villard
4.2 12.5 12.50 129 57 00 / 00 30.2
190 Crooked Hearts (1991) Vincent D'Onofrio 0.0 0.1 0.10 253 59 00 / 00 28.1
191 Queens Logic (1991) Kevin Bacon &
Linda Fiorentino
0.6 1.8 1.80 181 59 00 / 00 27.9
192 Doublecrossed (1991)
HBO Movie
Dennis Hopper 0.0 0.1 0.10 245 59 00 / 00 27.6
196 Oscar (1991) Sylvester Stallone &
Kirk Douglas
23.6 70.0 70.00 56 35 00 / 00 26.9
196 V.I. Warshawski (1991) Kathleen Turner 11.1 33.0 33.00 91 48 00 / 00 25.8
200 The Marrying Man (1991) Alec Baldwin &
Kim Basinger
12.5 37.0 37.00 86 46 00 / 00 25.7
194 Year of the Gun (1991) Sharon Stone &
Andrew McCarthy
1.2 3.5 3.50 164 57 00 / 00 25.4
193 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 252 58 00 / 00 25.0
194 Blood and Concrete (1991) Billy Zane &
Jennifer Beals
0.0 0.0 0.00 271 58 00 / 00 24.9
198 The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 250 57 00 / 00 24.7
198 Cold Heaven (1991) Directed by Nicolas Roeg 0.1 0.3 0.30 214 57 00 / 00 24.5
200 The Favour the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991) 0.2 0.5 0.50 210 57 00 / 00 24.0
201 True Colors (1991) John Cusack &
Richard Widmark
0.4 1.2 1.20 193 56 00 / 00 22.1
203 Johnny Suede (1991) Brad Pitt &
Samuel L. Jackson
0.1 0.3 0.30 216 56 00 / 00 21.9
204 Whore (1991) Theresa Russell &
Benjamin Mouton
1.0 3.0 3.00 168 55 00 / 00 21.9
203 Shakes the Clown (1991) Bobcat Goldthwait &
Julie Brown
0.1 0.3 0.30 213 56 00 / 00 21.8
205 K2 (1991) Michael Biehn &
Matt Craven
3.1 9.2 9.20 135 53 00 / 00 21.8
205 Married to It (1993) Beau Bridges 2.1 5.8 5.80 164 54 00 / 00 21.5
209 Dutch (1991) Ed O'Neill 4.6 13.7 13.70 125 51 00 / 00 21.2
207 Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (1991)
HBO Movie
0.0 0.1 0.10 236 55 00 / 00 21.0
208 Delirious (1991) John Candy &
Mariel Hemingway
5.5 16.5 16.50 119 50 00 / 00 21.0
212 True Identity (1991) Lenny Henry &
Frank Langella
4.7 13.9 13.90 123 51 00 / 00 20.5
210 Liebestraum (1991) Kevin Anderson &
Bill Pullman
0.1 0.4 0.40 212 55 00 / 00 20.3
213 Livin' Large! (1991) Lisa Arrindell 5.5 16.2 16.20 120 50 00 / 00 19.5
214 Bingo (1991) Cindy Williams &
David Rasche
8.7 25.7 25.70 104 47 00 / 00 19.4
214 Becoming Colette (1991) Klaus Maria Brandauer &
Mathilda May
0.3 0.8 0.80 201 54 00 / 00 18.6
217 Life Stinks (1991) Mel Brooks 4.1 12.2 12.20 130 49 00 / 00 17.2
215 Twenty-One (1991) Patsy Kensit &
Jack Shepherd
0.3 0.8 0.80 203 53 00 / 00 17.2
216 Prisoners of the Sun (1991) Russell Crowe 0.1 0.2 0.20 219 53 00 / 00 16.9
218 Talent for the Game (1991) Edward James Olmos &
Lorraine Bracco
0.3 1.0 1.00 199 52 00 / 00 16.2
220 The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991)
Film Festival Circuit Only
Joan Cusack 0.1 0.1 0.10 227 52 00 / 00 15.9
220 Missing Pieces (1991) Eric Idle 0.0 0.1 0.10 239 52 00 / 00 15.2
222 Bed and Breakfast (1991) Roger Moore 0.0 0.1 0.10 231 52 00 / 00 15.1
223 Secret Friends (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 264 52 00 / 00 15.0
224 Scissors (1991) Sharon Stone 0.0 0.0 0.00 272 52 00 / 00 14.9
223 Final Approach (1991) Hector Elizondo 0.0 0.1 0.10 241 51 00 / 00 14.7
227 Scenes From a Mall (1991) Woody Allen &
Bette Midler
9.6 28.4 28.40 97 42 00 / 00 14.3
227 Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) Sean Connery 15.6 46.2 46.20 71 36 00 / 00 14.2
229 Fever (1991)
HBO Movie
0.0 0.1 0.10 258 50 00 / 00 13.2
227 The Pope Must Diet (1991) Robbie Coltrane &
Adrian Edmondson
0.6 1.7 1.70 182 50 00 / 00 13.2
228 McBain (1991) Christopher Walken 0.5 1.4 1.40 190 49 00 / 00 12.6
229 Talkin' Dirty After Dark (1991) Martin Lawrence 1.0 2.9 2.90 170 49 00 / 00 12.5
231 The Hitman (1991) Chuck Norris 4.7 13.8 13.80 124 45 00 / 00 12.4
230 The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991) Matt Frewer 0.9 2.8 2.80 171 49 00 / 00 12.4
234 Into the Sun (1991) Anthony Michael Hall 0.6 1.8 1.80 179 49 00 / 00 12.3
236 Suburban Commando (1991) Christopher Lloyd 6.9 20.6 20.60 113 42 00 / 00 10.9
235 Convicts (1991) Robert Duvall &
James Earl Jones
0.0 0.0 0.00 270 48 00 / 00 10.5
236 The Guyver (1991) 0.1 0.2 0.20 228 47 00 / 00 10.2
237 Ted & Venus (1991) Gena Rowlands 0.0 0.1 0.10 234 47 00 / 00 10.0
245 Hudson Hawk (1991) Bruce Willis &
James Coburn
17.2 51.1 100.20 68 31 00 / 00 9.8
242 One Good Cop (1991) Michael Keaton 11.3 33.5 33.50 90 36 00 / 00 9.8
239 Breathing Fire (1991) Ke Huy Quan 0.0 0.1 0.10 247 47 00 / 00 9.7
241 Do Or Die (1991)
Limited Release
Erik Estrada 0.0 0.1 0.10 262 47 00 / 00 9.6
239 Off and Running (1991)
Video On Demand
David Keith 0.1 0.1 0.10 220 47 00 / 00 9.6
241 Another You (1991) Richard Pryor &
Gene Wilder
2.9 8.5 8.50 138 44 00 / 00 9.0
243 The Dark Backward (1991) Judd Nelson &
Bill Paxton
0.0 0.1 0.10 256 46 00 / 00 8.9
246 Drop Dead Fred (1991) Carrie Fisher 13.9 41.2 41.20 84 33 00 / 00 8.7
245 Shout (1991) John Travolta &
Heather Graham
3.5 10.5 10.50 134 42 00 / 00 8.1
246 Ambition (1991) Haing S. Ngor 0.4 1.3 1.30 192 45 00 / 00 7.7
250 The Butcher's Wife (1991) Frances McDormand &
Demi Moore
9.7 28.8 28.80 96 36 00 / 00 7.6
249 Company Business (1991) Gene Hackman &
Mikhail Baryshnikov
1.5 4.5 4.50 155 43 00 / 00 7.2
249 Under Suspicion (1991) Liam Neeson &
Laura San Giacomo
0.2 0.7 0.70 205 44 00 / 00 6.8
250 Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991) Peter Boyle 1.3 3.7 3.70 161 43 00 / 00 6.7
253 Children Of The Night (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 260 43 00 / 00 5.9
252 Raw Nerve (1991)
Limited Release
Glenn Ford 0.1 0.1 0.10 221 43 00 / 00 5.8
253 Mannequin Two: On the Move (1991) Kristy Swanson 3.8 11.1 11.10 132 39 00 / 00 5.4
258 Blonde Fist (1991) 0.1 0.2 0.20 223 42 00 / 00 5.2
257 Age Isn't Everything (1991)
Film Festival Circuit Only
Rita Moreno 0.0 0.1 0.10 246 42 00 / 00 5.2
255 Iron Maze (1991)
Film Festival Circuit Only
Bridget Fonda 0.0 0.1 0.10 251 42 00 / 00 5.2
258 Eve of Destruction (1991) Gregory Hines 5.5 16.2 16.20 121 36 00 / 00 4.9
258 Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1991) Sharon Stone 0.1 0.2 0.20 224 41 00 / 00 4.5
261 The Unborn (1991) Brooke Adams &
Jeff Hayenga
1.2 3.4 3.40 165 40 00 / 00 4.5
261 Zandalee (1991)
Limited Release
Nicolas Cage 0.0 0.1 0.10 268 41 00 / 00 4.4
261 Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991) Milla Jovovich &
Brian Krause
2.8 8.3 8.30 140 37 00 / 00 4.0
265 Strictly Business (1991) Tommy Davidson &
Joseph C. Phillips
7.7 22.8 22.80 108 31 00 / 00 3.3
263 Wild Orchid 2 (1991) Christopher McDonald 0.6 1.6 1.60 184 38 00 / 00 3.2
265 Hangfire (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 259 37 00 / 00 2.5
266 Nothing But Trouble (1991) Chevy Chase &
Dan Aykroyd
8.5 25.2 25.20 105 28 00 / 00 2.2
267 Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1991)
Limited Release
0.0 0.1 0.10 265 33 00 / 00 1.2
269 Going Under (1991) Bill Pullman 0.0 0.1 0.10 242 31 00 / 00 0.9
270 Cool as Ice (1991) Vanilla Ice &
Kristin Minter
1.2 3.5 3.50 163 28 00 / 00 0.7
269 Virgin High (1991)
Home Entertainment Only
0.0 0.1 0.10 267 29 00 / 00 0.6
271 Beastmaster 2 (1991) Marc Singer 0.9 2.6 2.60 172 27 00 / 00 0.5
272 The Roller Blade Seven (1991) 0.0 0.1 0.10 261 27 00 / 00 0.4

Top earners in 1991 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

Name Number of Movies Total Adj World Wide (mil) Total Adj USA (mil)
Christian Slater 3 1,507.2 773.9
Julia Roberts 3 1,657.2 757.0
Kevin Costner 2 1,769.3 700.4
Angela Lansbury 1 1,261.8 650.1
Robby Benson 1 1,261.8 650.1
Scott Glenn 3 1,272.9 630.1
Earl Boen 2 1,543.6 608.3
Arnold Schwarzenegger 1 1,543.5 608.2
Linda Hamilton 1 1,543.5 608.2
Robert Patrick 1 1,543.5 608.2
Edward Furlong 1 1,543.5 608.2
Robin Williams 3 1,130.6 592.6
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 2 1,231.5 563.5
Robert De Niro 3 1,021.7 494.1
Alan Rickman 3 1,160.6 492.6
Morgan Freeman 1 1,159.4 491.4
Jodie Foster 2 884.1 462.5
Nick Nolte 2 944.4 456.9
David Warner 2 589.5 455.9
Steve Martin 3 449.6 449.6
Donald Sutherland 2 1,062.3 440.2
Christina Ricci 2 645.5 413.9
Dustin Hoffman 2 976.2 401.5
Saul Bass 2 704.0 397.6
Bob Hoskins 4 928.3 390.3
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  1. BOB ROY says:
    April 1, 2019 at 10:44 am

    1991 was a pivotal year for me as a moviegoer as, being a lazy kind of guy who doesn’t like going out in bad weather and/or jostling with cinema queues, I largely forsook the movie houses and instead became a regular customer at the local video libraries. Although nowadays I am tee-total I loved nothing better, especially on a Saturday night, than sitting down in at home with my bottle of wine and watching the latest movies.

    I have seen 8 of the top 20 biggest box office hits in the table above and my own Top 10 fave films overall are:

    Robin Hood Prince of Thieves – Costner’s heyday
    Silence of the Lambs- Enter Doctor Lecter
    The Prince of Tides-My Babs in her heyday
    Doc Hollywood
    Bugsy
    Point Break
    The Fisher King
    The Doctor-possibly my fave among the 10
    Deceived
    Regarding Henry – I watched this again just last night.

    As this annual review has brought back to me those nostalgic nights was back in the 1990s that I have described above I can do nothing other than greet it with a “Vote Up!”

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    1. Cogerson says:
      April 1, 2019 at 9:34 pm

      Hey Bob….thanks for the feedback on our 1991 movie page. Getting excited about finishing these yearly reviews…over the weekends…did the research on 1992, 1993 and 2010…..granted I have not written the pages on those…but in my mind…that only leaves 15 years to do. I long journey…since one day at HubPages…I thought….I should do a page on a year….and I picked 1946 as that year.

      The 1990s were near the end of the peak years for video stores…but they had a good run….I remember working on Saturdays in my video store….and those nights were packed with customers…..so I can easily picture you headed to the store and getting all the latest movies.

      As for your favorites…seen all of hem…with Doc Hollywood, The Fisher King and Robin Hood being movies I really like. Regarding Henry was Harrison Ford’s attempt to get an Oscar….it did not work….but…it is still a good movie. WoC just watched it a couple of weekends ago…you and her are on the same movie wavelength.

      Movies and wine….Pierre approves that combo….good stuff as always.

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      1. BOB ROY to BRUCE says:
        April 2, 2019 at 8:14 am

        HI BRUCE. First congratulations on producing a staggering number of annual reviews at even this juncture and on almost reaching 300 individual-star pages. In its entirety your site represents a gigantic reference reservoir for movie buffs like me and I’m sure many other types of viewers besides.

        Indeed I said to W o Bob the other night “If that Brucie guy was retired like me and didn’t have so many day jobs he’d probably have written THE Bible on movie stats and ratings by now! As it is he’s nearly in The Promised Land!”

        Thanks for sharing with me your own Video Days memories. The first video library opened in 1981 in East Belfast where I live and the owner told me once that on opening night there were Star Wars-type queues round the block.

        The end result was that when those at the back of the queues finally got in all the great stuff of that time had gone and they took “any old thing” just to go home with a video -probably even a Jason Statham one if he’d been around at that time. The first video that I ever watched was a 1988 horror movie called Rush Week starring Roy Thinnes – just a 47% rating from IMDB [cant’s spot it in your 1988 review] but I didn’t care because it was a thrill in itself just to watch it at home!

        Regarding Henry is my fave Harrison Ford film but I liked him in Working Girl, What Lies Beneath, the Sabrina remake and his supporting stint in Apocalypse Now. Indeed if he had made more of dramatic/comedy films and less of the action stuff [especially as he got older] I probably would have been a greater fan of his than even you are as I understand it! By the way I suppose you already know that his Col Lucas in Apocalypse Now was a homage reference to his great Star Wars “mentor” GEORGE Lucas? [The Empire Strikes Back was released about 9 months after Apocalypse Now.] Anyway take care.

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  2. Steve Lensman says:
    March 31, 2019 at 7:50 am

    Okaaay…. I’ve seen 78 of the 218 films on the chart. Less than I thought. Looking at my datafiles – I have 73 films from 1991 in my movie collection.

    Favorites include –

    Addams Family ,The
    American Tail 2 ,An
    Backdraft
    Beauty and the Beast
    Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey
    Bugsy
    Cape Fear (1991)
    City Slickers
    Flight of the Intruder
    Hard Way ,The
    Highlander II (Renegade Edition)
    Hook
    Hot Shots !
    JFK (Director’s Cut)
    Last Boy Scout ,The
    Naked Gun 2
    Oscar
    Out for Justice
    Perfect Weapon ,The
    Point Break
    Robin Hood – Prince of Thieves
    Rocketeer ,The
    Shattered
    Showdown in Little Tokyo
    Silence of the Lambs ,The
    Sleeping With The Enemy
    Star Trek VI – The Undiscovered Country
    Terminator 2 – Judgment Day
    Thelma and Louise
    Toy Soldiers
    zz-China – Once Upon a Time in China
    zz-Japan – Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah

    Biggest film of the year worldwide and domestic in unadjusted dollars was Terminator 2, followed by Robin Hood. I’m assuming Beauty and the Beast earned more dollars in later rereleases.

    Silence of the Lambs won the top 5 awards at the Oscars the following year, I still remember Billy Crystal’s entrance at the awards in Hannibal Lecter mask, Anthony Hopkins in the audience laughing.

    Another epic movie page Bruce. Vote Up!

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    1. Cogerson says:
      April 1, 2019 at 6:33 am

      Hey Steve. Thanks for the tally, visit and the comment. Where to start? Beauty and the Beast did not get too many re-releases in theaters…..by 1991….the home entertainment market was a major revenue generator for Disney……the negative of that is….it pretty much stopped the generation releases of their classics. Movies like Aladdin, Lion King, Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast pretty much had one major release. Disney’s answer to that lost revenue? Live action versions of the movie. Beauty and the Beast got a remake. Aladdin and The Lion King get releases later this year. The Little Mermaid is due next year. I imagine, Disney liked the old version better….just release the old movie to theaters…versus making a new movie (Dumbo, Mary Poppins Returns). I am looking forward to Super Dad (only this time Kurt Russell can play the dad).

      I have seen all of your favorites with the exception of the “zz” ones and Showdown in Tokyo. Hidden gems for me would be Only The Lonely (John Candy is stellar) Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks’ best movie?) and Hudson Hawk (yes parts were bad….but the main story was interesting….and seemed to have been borrowed heavily by Dan Brown in his epic book The Da Vinci Code. Good stuff as always.

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  3. Max says:
    March 30, 2019 at 6:44 pm

    Hi Bruce, thanks again for this ranking !

    1991 was one of my favorite year regarding movies …. Some of them are my all time favorites …
    Terminator 2 ; the Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear , Hook, Beauty and the Beast and Robin Hood !
    For me, the remake of cape fear is better than the original starring Robert Mitchum, Terminator 2 is also better than the first one …Which is quite rare regarding sequels …And altough i prefer the 1938 Robin Hood version, prince of thieves is quite good !

    Some time ago, I had sent you several messages asking you to put more worldwide box office adjusted grosses/ estimated ticket sales especially for older movies (1930-1990) …

    Since then, I made a lot of research and I must confess that I am today almost convinced that it is useless because totally imprecise concerning the oldest films from 1930-1990…

    Most of the time, to get a global adjusted or ticket sales result we take the total Usa box office + foreign gross and divide it all by the average Usa ticket price at the time to get an approximate total admissions number ….

    The big problem is that the prices of movie tickets in other countries were sometimes different from those in the USA and also varied differently depending on inflation …

    I even think that for pre-1980 films, foreign rentals are practically unworkable … The average multiplier to convert rentals to box office grosses is probably changing from country to country in different ways….

    As far as I could see, some websites try to practice rankings of “all time adjusted box office grosses” but each time the results are different and movies didn’t have the same global grosses …

    On the other hand box office mojo does not practice that and variety either… They just adjust the usa numbers which seems more coherent …
    Moreover, I find that it is sometimes difficult even by treating only USA rentals or grosses figures mainly beacuse of re-releases or the cases of movies released at the end of the year, etc….Then to estimate that at the global level would be even more complicated

    For a long time I thought that the more information we could collect and process, the closer we would get to an exact figure, but on the other hand, the more information we process, the more likely we are to go wrong! So keeping only usa figures with the average price available seems to be the best we can do and it’s even hard sometimes only on that level !

    What’s your opinion about that ? Do you think that for the old films of the period 1930 1990 it is not relevant to make worldwide adjusted grosses estimations ? ?

    Thanks a lot and keep going ! 🙂

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    1. Cogerson says:
      April 1, 2019 at 6:23 am

      Hey Max.
      1. As always….it is good to hear from you.
      2. Glad you like this yearly review.
      3. Having 6 all-time favorites in one year is pretty impressive.
      4. I am right there with you on Terminator 2: Judgement.
      5. I like and enjoyed all of the other 5……just not enough to make my all-time favorites list.
      6. Of your 6 favorites…I saw T2, Hook and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in packed theaters…..it was a great movie going experience.
      7. Interesting points about worldwide box office.
      8. Do you have your research listed anywhere?….seems like it would be worth posting it somewhere.
      9. As for the issues with calculating worldwide grosses…..yes indeed….you have mentioned some major hurdles. Nobody…..will be able to give a perfect box office number for movies made before 1980.
      10. Even with the issues…..I still think it is possible to put together a reasonable estimation…in many ways like paleontologists…we will never know what dinosaurs really really looked like…..but by putting the puzzle pieces together…we can at least get a general idea of what worldwide grosses were.
      11. I always say…..our estimated numbers might not get your actual address….but we feel pretty comfortable that we can locate your neighborhood.
      12. I think anybody that claims they have the actual gross is somebody that is not looking at all the facts (many you listed).
      Good stuff.

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      1. Max says:
        April 1, 2019 at 1:54 pm

        Hi Bruce, I am very busy lately; I unfortunately do not have too much time to devote myself to box office figures but I continue to regularly look at your site which is the best on the subject !

        As i said it to you, after a lot of investigations, i have totally abandonned the idea of making a list of movies by numbers of tickets sold or adjusted for inflation in Europe or worldwide because :

        1) It takes much more time and energy i ever imagine…

        2) the figures available or numbers of admissions are too incomplete for an accurate global ranking … A lot of countries are missing and some figures seems unofficial ….

        3) Because of what I mentioned in my previous comment, there are too many sources of errors at the international level…. It seems useless to me now to make a global ranking of movies adjusted for inflation or by tickets sold for the period 1930 – 2000….

        For exemple :
        Guiness Book lists the top ten movies worldwide adjusted for inflation ; their list and figures differs from yours and it’s the same thing for every type of list i’ve seen…. They are all different each other…. on this subject …. It simply means that it is too difficult due to the lack of information ; the average ticket prices used for conversion of rentals or some other issues i’ve also mentionned before such as ticket price which differs by country/period…

        Even in the US it’s very difficult … I’ll take only one exemple : Swiss family robinson (1960)
        Box office mojo and the numbers lists the movie with 40 000 000 $ gross in 1960…
        It’s an immense mistake … This figure is in fact the total gross of many reissues in the usa /
        According to Variety the domestic rentals are :
        -1960 8 100 000 (original issue)
        -1969 6 400 000
        -1972 2 000 000
        -1975 2 000 000

        For a grand total of approximatively 20 000 000 $ rentals … Then i suppose that BOM and the Numbers multiply it by 2 and they have their grand total of 40 000 000 $ gross …..Ignoring the fact that most of half rentals numbers come from reissues with another average ticket price of course …
        There are a lot of movies with the same issues just with domestic numbers …. Imagine that on an international level …..

        As you now, i’m only interested by vintage stuff : movies released in the US between 1930-2000

        I also made a few researches of average ticket price in european countries VS USA ; i give you a few examples :

        i converted the ticket prices in US $ so you can compare them very easily :

        France : Uk : Us :
        -1940 : 0.070 -1940 : 0.24
        -1950 : 0.11 -1950 : 0.53
        -1960 : 0.31 -1960 : 0.17 -1960 : 0.69
        -1970 : 0.82 -1970 : 0.41 -1970 : 1.55
        -1980 : 2.76 – 1980 : 1.87 -1980 : 2.69
        -1990 : 5.37 -1990 : 3.69 -1990 : 4.23
        -2000 : 10.42 -2000 : 5.72 -2000 : 5.39

        Those numbers speaks by themselves …..

        Imagine if a movie released in 1970 made 15 000 000 $ in the Usa and 15 000 000 $ overseas for a grand total of 30 000 000 $ ( in gross)
        To obtain the numbers of tickets sold we must made : 30 000 000 / 1.55 (average usa ticket price) = 19 354 838 tickets sold worldwide
        It means that the movie sold 9 677 419 tickets in the usa and also the same number overseas ….

        But if we use the average ticket price in the UK in 1970 : 0.41 $ to convert the 15 000 000 $ gross overseas we obtain : 15 000 000 / 0.41 = 36 585 365 tickets sold overseas !!! Almost the double of the tickets price sold worldwide according to our first estimation with the average usa ticket price !! And the gap could even be worse using other years ….

        The best way to compare movies is using the apple to apple method…. Not the apple to orange or apple to banana….
        I understand your point of view when you said that : “our estimated numbers might not get your actual address….but we feel pretty comfortable that we can locate your neighborhood.”
        I know we are dealing with movies figures so it’s not serious things in a way but imagine that your neighbor is a wanted criminal and that the police will arrest you in his place because according to their estimates, the guy they are looking for must be in this area…..

        After all my researches that’s my vision of worldwide estimations for old movies now…

        Of course Thunderball performed better worldwide than License to Kill ; of course bridge on the river kwai made more admissions in the world than full metal jacket …. But we cannot give an accurate global number for those movies so it’s useless to put them in a global ranking because if a ranking isn’t accurate it’s not a ranking by definition….

        On the other hand, the funny thing is that i now agree with you that using only the US numbers is the best method because :
        1)The films we are interested in are those released in the united states
        2) It is the biggest “unified” market so it represents a very big part of the income of a film
        3) the box office figures are centralized at the scale of a single country unlike Europe….

        In addition I prefer to discover movies at the moment rather than looking for their rentals/grosses … I did that for too long and I almost forgot the pleasure of taking the time to discover old movies … We can also finally wonder why are we doing all this research on film revenues …. In my case, it was to have a global list of films released in the US between 1930 and 2000 and have been successful in the box office ….. With your yearly reviews I have access to all that and it’s good enough for me !….
        For cinema, I only have one thing to say : “God bless America” 😉

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        1. Cogerson says:
          April 1, 2019 at 10:02 pm

          Hey Max……great comment….with lots of great information. Thanks for sharing it. Good examples of how daunting a task this really is. Swiss Family Robinson is a great example to use. In our database we have Swiss Family Robinson listed with about 13 million in rentals and $37 million in gross…..that is what it takes to use all the re-release numbers…and come up with a career total. If I were to used their total rental number of $20 million the adjusted gross would go to $57.00 million gross. We did not even attempt a worldwide number for that movie.

          “I know we are dealing with movies figures so it’s not serious things in a way but imagine that your neighbor is a wanted criminal and that the police will arrest you in his place because according to their estimates, the guy they are looking for must be in this area…..”…I like this thought…it made me laugh.

          I have already put your US/France/UK tickets into our database…..there is a section for information like this….thanks again for sharing it. Glad you like our yearly reviews so much…when we look at our view totals….those yearly reviews have become some of our biggest view getters…..and it keeps picking up steam…..right now our 1939, 1946 and 1952 pages are among our Top 25 most popular pages of alltime on our website. We should knock out the rest of the 1990s pretty quickly…..1992 and 1993 are ready to go….and 1994 is already published.

          Thanks again for sharing all of this information…your efforts are greatly appreciated.

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          1. Max says:
            April 5, 2019 at 4:20 pm

            Hi Bruce, i still have a question to which I have no answer …

            Maybe you have some informations …

            I noticed that for many movies of the 90’s, box office mojo sometimes makes a detailed list of grosses in dollars that some movies have made in countries outside the united states ….
            here is an example : https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=gladiator.htm

            And very often, despite the difference in ticket prices between the usa and the rest of the world, if we divide the dollar gross of each country by the average ticket price in the United States at the time we get approximatively the number of admissions that these films have made in the country concerned (i have the admissions numbers of a lot of movies in Europe so i can compare them with the gross published by box office mojo) ….

            The question is the following … How box office mojo gets these revenues in dollars per country?
            Do they get the number of tickets sold per country and multiply them by the US ticket price of the year concerned to obtain a foreign gross in dollar country by country or is it more like revenue that is given by the countries concerned in their respective currencies and then box office mojo converts them into dollars ?
            As in the 90s the ticket prices were generally the same in europe and the usa, the gap in the entries is then relatively small….

            What’s your opinion about that ?

  4. Dan says:
    March 28, 2019 at 10:44 pm

    1991, JFK was my best film of the year. The following by your rankings I see in cinemas back then, 1-9,11-26,28-38,40-47,49,53,54,56-60,66,72-75,78,80,82-85,88,89,92,94,96,97,103,104,108-110,112-114,117-119,122,123,125,126,128,129,131-133,138,139,144,148-151,153-159,165,166,169-171,174-178,180-183,185,187,190,192,193,195-197,199,200,202,204-206,208-211,213-218 (always seem to have seen the bottom ones).

    Here are 59 other 1991 flics I have seen since then through various other sources (TV channel, tape or DVD). Key is film, studio, date seen, source.

    976-EVIL II 1991 CINETEL 3/1 2017 EPIX
    ACROSS THE TRACKS 1991 ACADEMY ENT 9/12 1995 TMC
    AMERICAN FRIENDS (H.K.) 1991 CASTLE HILL 12/21 1997 BRAVO
    AT HOME WITH THE WEBBERS 1991 LIVE 5/21 1997 55
    BAD GIRLS FROM MARS 1991 AMERICAN IND. 1/7 2017 EPIX
    BLOOD MASSACRE 1991 3 STAR REL. 10/18 2011 DVD
    BORN TO RIDE 1991 WB XXX XXX 9/25 2001 ACTN
    BRAIN TWISTERS 1991 CROWN INTL 7/17 2012 DVD
    CRITTERS 3 1991 NEW LINE 5/4 2011 MAX
    CROOKED HEARTS 1991 MGM 2/3 2009 DRA
    DARK BACKWARDS 1991 GREYCAT 10/7 1996 TMC
    DAUGHTER OF THE DUST 1991 KINO INTL. 3/31 2017 TCM
    DEATH HAS A BAD REPUTATION 1991 FREDERICK FORSYTHE 3/11 1998 STZ
    DRIVING ME CRAZY 1991 MPCA 4/9 1997 7
    EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES (AUSTRALIAN) 1991 7/27 2013 DVD
    EVIL TOONS 1991 AIP 11/27 1995 TMC
    EYES OF AN ANGEL 1991 TWE 1/6 2017 EPIX
    FINEST HOUR 1991 21ST CENTURY 1/2 2011 ACTN
    FIRES WITHIN 1991 MGM 12/26 2010 LOVE
    FRIED GREEN TOMOATOES 1991 UNI 5/4 1998 USA
    GHOULIES III: GHOULIES GO TO COLLEGE 1991 LIVE HOME VIDEO/VESTRON 8/5 2013 SUSP
    GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORA (JAP.) 1991 TOHO 6/17 1995 TAPE
    GREAT INDIAN WARS 1840 – 1890 (DOC.) 1991 DAN DALTON PRODS. 1/10 2014 DVD
    HANGIN’ WITH THE HOMEBOYS 1991 NL 3/24 1997 11
    HEAR MY SONG (IRISH) 1991 MIRAMAX 4/2 1997 TMC
    HEAVEN IS A PLAYGROUND 1991 NL 5/8 2017 BOUNCE
    I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS 1991 PAR 2/26 2008 MAX
    JOHNNY STECCHINO (IT.) 1991 NL 6/12 1995 BRAVO
    KAFKA 1991 BALTIMORE 6/4 1995 BRAVO
    MAY WINE 1991 MOVIE GROUP LARA FLYNN BOYLE 7/26 2006 FXM
    MINDWALK 1991 TRITON 4/7 1997 BRAVO
    MIRACLE, THE (IRISH) 1991 5/13 1996 BRAVO
    MISSISSIPPI MASALA 1991 SAMUEL GOLDWYN DENZEL WASHINGTON 9/1 2005 LOVE
    NEW JACK CITY 1991 WB 5/7 1997 55
    POLAR BEAR KING (NOR-SWE-GER) 1991 10/25 2014 DVD
    PUPPET MASTER 3: TRYLON’S REVENGE 1991 FULL MOON 10/17 1996 SCI
    PYRATES 1991 ACT III 2/8 1998 STZ
    QUEENS LOGIC 1991 NL 11/21 1996 7
    REFLECTING SKIN (U.K.-CAN.) 1991 MIRAMAX 1/18 2014 DVD
    ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDERSTERN ARE DEAD 1991 CINECOM 3/2 1996 BRAVO
    ROVER DANGERFIELD 1991 WB 3/8 1996 DIS
    RUBBERFACE 1991 CARODI 10/26 1995 TAPE
    SHADOW OF CHINA 1991 NL 12/7 1996 BRAVO
    SHOUT 1991 UNI 2/14 1996 USA
    SHOWDOWN AT WILLIAMS CREEK (CAN.) 1991 12/14 2013 DVD
    SKI SCHOOL 1991 MOVIESTORE 4/4 2009 MAX
    SPIRIT OF THE EAGLE 1991 QUEEN’S CRURE PRPDS. 11/26 2012 DVD
    STRICTLY BUSINESS 1991 WB 11/10 1995 55
    SUPERSTAR: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANDY WARHOL (DOC.) 1991 ARIES 4/8 1998 BRAVO
    SWAN PRINCESS: THE MYSTERY OF THE ENCHANTED TREASURE 1991 NEST FAMILY 2/21 2012 EFAM
    TRANCERS II 1991 FULL MOON/PAR 8/26 1995 SCI
    TREASURE, THE 1991 VIDMARK 3/21 1995 TMC
    TRUE COLORS 1991 PAR JOHN CUSACK JAMES SPADER 7/31 2001 MAX
    TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY (U.K.) 1991 SAMUEL GOLDWYN 2/26 1995 DIS
    WATERLAND 1991 FL 11/28 1996 BRAVO
    WIZARDS OF THE DEMON SWORD 1991 TROMA 6/26 1995 USA
    ZANDALEE 1991 ITL 7/4 1997 55
    ZERAM (JAP.) 1991 4/21 1996 SCI

    Reply
    1. Cogerson says:
      March 29, 2019 at 7:03 am

      Hey Dan…..another epic year of movie watching for you. A round of applause. My tally of 5 movies seen in theaters is nothing compared to your massive totals. I liked JFK…..but did not love it….mainly because I am not a huge Kevin Costner fan. But I respect your opinion on that movie….it does have one heck of a cast. I think there are now 12 pages on UMR that rank that movie…..that is one of the most on the website.

      Congrats on being one of the few people to see Beastmaster 2 in theaters….I bet it was a lonely theater…..lol. As bad as that movie might be…..it is still cool to think….that of all the people that were walking the Earth at that time….you were one of the few to do something (see Marc Singer’s sequel)….heck you might be the only person not related to people that worked on the movie to actually pay to see it….unless of course you are one of those relatives…lol.

      Good stuff as always.

      Reply
      1. Dan says:
        March 30, 2019 at 12:04 am

        I’ve seen a number of movies down thee year where I am the only person at a screening and some have been in the opening week where the fikm made 40 million or so on the weekend! I remember going to 1 dud about 1989 or so called Pizza Man that was only in 1 theater in New York and I was the only person there. It starred Bill Maher (I didn’t know who he was then).

        I just bought your book from Amazon. I’m cheap, had to wait to find something else I wanted or needed to get free shipping (think it’s $25 or $35 for free shipping).

        Reply
        1. Dan says:
          March 30, 2019 at 12:06 am

          Should be down the years and film.

          Reply
          1. Cogerson says:
            April 1, 2019 at 6:10 am

            Hey Dan…got it.

        2. Cogerson says:
          April 1, 2019 at 6:10 am

          Hey Dan….thanks for buying the book……that is greatly appreciated. Hope you enjoy the book. Interesting story about Pizza Man…..I knew about the Pizza Man of 2011……about a guy that eats a pizza and becomes a superhero…..it features Stan Lee in a cameo. But I was unaware of Maher’s 1991’s Pizza Man. In 27 years it has gotten a grand total of 147 votes on IMDB. Amazing that in New York City, you were the only one in the theater….in the only theater showing it in NYC. Fun information. And thanks again for buying the book.

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  5. Flora Breen Robison says:
    March 28, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    I have seen 22 movies from 1991. 14 of them are in the top 20.

    The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Beauty and the Beast.

    The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Silence of the Lambs.

    The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is True Colors.

    Top 10 Movies I Have Seen:

    Beauty and the Beast
    JFK
    The Prince of Tides
    City Slickers
    Bugsy
    Cape Fear
    Fried Green Tomatoes

    Top 20 Movies I Have Seen:

    Naked Gun 2 1/2
    Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
    Thelma and Louise
    Hook
    What About Bob?
    Backdraft
    The Fisher King

    Favourite 1991 Movies:

    Beauty and the Beast
    Thelma and Louise
    Hot Shots!
    The Fisher King
    Doc Hollywood
    City Slickers
    Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
    Fried Green Tomatoes
    JFK

    Other 1991 Movie I Have Seen:

    The Prince of Tides
    Bugsy
    Cape Fear – watched for cameos of Peck and Mitchum
    Naked Gun 2 1/2
    Hook
    What About Bob?
    Backdraft
    My Girl
    Regarding Henry
    The Man in the Moon
    The Hard Way
    Other People’s Money
    True Colors

    Reply
    1. Cogerson says:
      March 29, 2019 at 6:57 am

      Hey Flora….thanks for checking out our latest yearly review….it seems strange to see that these movies are 28 years old. Seems like only yesterday that I was watching them when they were brand new. 22 seen is a decent total….and 70% of the Top 20 is even more impressive. I have seen 118 of these movies….but only 5 of them in theaters. At this point in my life….I was married with one child (Bryan) and one on the way (Scotty). I was working two jobs (one was on the night shift) so getting to theaters was not too easy back then….but hitting video stores on the weekend was the main source of entertainment back then.

      I have seen all of your favorites…with The Fisher King and Star Trek VI being my favorites as well. I enjoyed Backdraft more than you….as that would be in my Top 5. Even with a downer of an ending….I watch that one every couple of years. Hook was a major disappointment. Cape Fear is nowhere near as impressives as the original. It is good to see Peck appearing a couple of times on this yearly review. Good stuff as always.

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