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1996 • PG • 1h 48m • Comedy, Drama, Music • 20th Century Fox

The Fab Four without the Mop Tops

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Box office summary

Opening weekend
$6.20M
3-day opening
Domestic total
$25.90M
Final
Worldwide total
$34.60M
$8.70M international
Domestic legs4.2x
1996 rank#60
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Cast & crew

Full Hanks filmography
Tom Hanks Tom Hanks Director Tom Everett Scott Tom Everett Scott Starring Liv Tyler Liv Tyler Starring Steve Zahn Steve Zahn Starring Ethan Embry Ethan Embry Starring Charlize Theron Charlize Theron Starring
ScreenplayTom Hanks Produced byGary Goetzman, Jonathan Demme, Edward Saxon CinematographyTak Fujimoto Music byHoward Shore Studio20th Century Fox

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal
1 Oct 4-6 3 $6.2M — 1,870 $3,320 $6.2M
2 Oct 11-13 5 $5.4M −13.3% 1,887 $2,852 $13.1M
3 Oct 18-20 5 $3.9M −28.1% 1,879 $2,058 $17.8M
4 Oct 25-27 9 $2.1M −47.0% 1,586 $1,293 $20.6M
5 Nov 1-3 12 $1.2M −42.4% 941 $1,256 $22.2M
6 Nov 8-10 16 $761.9K −35.5% 706 $1,079 $23.2M
7 Nov 15-17 18 $468.2K −38.5% 626 $748 $23.9M
8 Nov 22-24 15 $329.4K −29.6% 509 $647 $24.3M
9 Nov 29-Dec 1 19 $354.5K +7.6% 415 $854 $24.7M
10 Dec 6-8 15 $192.4K −45.7% 395 $487 $25.0M
11 Dec 13-15 15 $140.3K −27.1% 403 $348 $25.2M
12 Dec 20-22 33 $62.1K −55.8% 165 $376 $25.3M
13 Dec 27-29 42 $89.3K +43.9% 124 $720 $25.5M
14 Jan 3-5 41 $81.5K −8.8% 119 $685 $25.6M
15 Jan 10-12 43 $52.8K −35.1% 97 $545 $25.7M
17 Jan 24-26 56 $25.7K — 46 $559 $25.8M
Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record
Weekend grossWk 10 · $192.4K
$6.2M
$5.4M
$3.9M
$2.1M
$1.2M
$761.9K
$468.2K
$329.4K
$354.5K
$192.4K
W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10
Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −45.7%
−13.3%
W1→2
−28.1%
W2→3
−47.0%
W3→4
−42.4%
W4→5
−35.5%
W5→6
−38.5%
W6→7
−29.6%
W7→8
+7.6%
W8→9
−45.7%
W9→10
Steepest −47.0%Biggest gain +7.6%

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