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DOMESTIC GROSSES
Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation*
Rank Title (click to view) Studio Adjusted Gross Unadjusted Gross Year^
1 Gone with the Wind MGM $1,293,085,600 $198,676,459 1939^
2 Star Wars Fox $1,139,965,400 $460,998,007 1977^
3 The Sound of Music Fox $911,458,400 $158,671,368 1965
4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Uni. $907,867,700 $435,110,554 1982^
5 The Ten Commandments Par. $838,400,000 $65,500,000 1956
6 Titanic Par. $821,413,700 $600,788,188 1997
7 Jaws Uni. $819,704,400 $260,000,000 1975
8 Doctor Zhivago MGM $794,466,900 $111,721,910 1965
9 The Exorcist WB $707,639,500 $232,671,011 1973^
10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Dis. $697,600,000 $184,925,486 1937^
11 101 Dalmatians Dis. $639,470,400 $144,880,014 1961^
12 The Empire Strikes Back Fox $628,356,100 $290,475,067 1980^
13 Ben-Hur MGM $627,200,000 $74,000,000 1959
14 Return of the Jedi Fox $601,980,200 $309,306,177 1983^
15 The Sting Uni. $570,514,300 $156,000,000 1973
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark Par. $564,107,900 $242,374,454 1981^
17 Jurassic Park Uni. $551,717,400 $357,067,947 1993
18 The Graduate AVCO $547,295,400 $104,642,560 1967
19 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Fox $542,885,200 $431,088,301 1999
20 Fantasia Dis. $531,478,300 $76,408,097 1941^
21 The Godfather Par. $505,104,400 $134,966,411 1972^
22 Forrest Gump Par. $502,691,900 $329,694,499 1994
23 Mary Poppins Dis. $500,363,600 $102,272,727 1964^
24 The Lion King BV $494,283,500 $328,541,776 1994^
25 Grease Par. $492,299,200 $188,389,888 1978^
26 Thunderball UA $478,720,000 $63,595,658 1965
27 The Jungle Book Dis. $471,551,400 $141,843,612 1967^
28 Sleeping Beauty Dis. $465,126,800 $51,600,000 1959^
29 Shrek 2 DW $454,725,900 $441,226,247 2004
30 Ghostbusters Col. $452,675,900 $238,632,124 1984^
31 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Fox $451,570,300 $102,308,889 1969
32 Love Story Par. $447,988,100 $106,397,186 1970
33 Spider-Man Sony $444,702,400 $403,706,375 2002
34 Independence Day Fox $443,320,800 $306,169,268 1996
35 Home Alone Fox $433,498,900 $285,761,243 1990
36 Pinocchio Dis. $431,381,300 $84,254,167 1940^
37 Cleopatra Fox $429,974,200 $57,777,778 1963
38 Beverly Hills Cop Par. $429,760,100 $234,760,478 1984
39 Goldfinger UA $424,320,000 $51,081,062 1964
40 Airport Uni. $423,112,200 $100,489,151 1970
41 American Graffiti Uni. $420,571,400 $115,000,000 1973
42 The Robe Fox $418,909,100 $36,000,000 1953
43 Around the World in 80 Days UA $413,538,500 $42,000,000 1956
44 Bambi RKO $407,759,700 $102,247,150 1942^
45 Blazing Saddles WB $404,656,100 $119,500,000 1974
46 Batman WB $402,909,600 $251,188,924 1989
47 The Bells of St. Mary's RKO $401,568,600 $21,333,333 1945
48 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King NL $393,844,100 $377,027,325 2003
49 The Towering Inferno Fox $392,804,200 $116,000,000 1974
50 Spider-Man 2 Sony $385,016,000 $373,585,825 2004
51 My Fair Lady WB $384,000,000 $72,000,000 1964
52 The Greatest Show on Earth Par. $384,000,000 $36,000,000 1952
53 National Lampoon's Animal House Uni. $383,297,700 $141,600,000 1978^
54 The Passion of the Christ NM $382,111,800 $370,782,930 2004^
55 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Fox $380,270,600 $380,270,577 2005
56 Back to the Future Uni. $377,924,200 $210,609,762 1985
57 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers NL $368,834,700 $341,786,758 2002^
58 The Sixth Sense BV $368,506,400 $293,506,292 1999
59 Superman WB $367,092,000 $134,218,018 1978
60 Tootsie Col. $364,185,200 $177,200,000 1982
61 Smokey and the Bandit Uni. $363,730,700 $126,737,428 1977
62 Finding Nemo BV $360,559,800 $339,714,978 2003
63 West Side Story MGM $358,209,800 $43,656,822 1961
64 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone WB $357,843,100 $317,575,550 2001
65 Lady and the Tramp Dis. $356,703,300 $93,602,326 1955^
66 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Col. $355,683,500 $132,088,635 1977^
67 Lawrence of Arabia Col. $354,454,700 $44,824,144 1962^
68 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fox $352,444,300 $112,892,319 1975
69 Rocky UA $352,255,800 $117,235,147 1976
70 The Best Years of Our Lives RKO $352,000,000 $23,650,000 1946
71 The Poseidon Adventure Fox $351,372,600 $84,563,118 1972
72 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring NL $350,105,100 $314,776,170 2001^
73 Twister WB $350,004,000 $241,721,524 1996
74 Men in Black Sony $349,546,700 $250,690,539 1997
75 The Bridge on the River Kwai Col. $348,160,000 $27,200,000 1957
76 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World MGM $344,802,700 $46,332,858 1963
77 Swiss Family Robinson Dis. $344,371,200 $40,356,000 1960
78 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest UA $343,586,300 $108,981,275 1975
79 M.A.S.H. Fox $343,578,900 $81,600,000 1970
80 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Par. $342,610,000 $179,870,271 1984
81 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Fox $342,198,200 $310,676,740 2002^
82 Mrs. Doubtfire Fox $337,180,100 $219,195,243 1993
83 Aladdin BV $335,631,000 $217,350,219 1992
84 Ghost Par. $329,377,400 $217,631,306 1990
85 Duel in the Sun Selz. $326,530,600 $20,408,163 1946
86 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl BV $324,152,900 $305,413,918 2003
87 House of Wax WB $323,404,300 $23,750,000 1953
88 Rear Window Par. $322,270,300 $36,764,313 1954^
89 The Lost World: Jurassic Park Uni. $319,423,700 $229,086,679 1997
90 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Par. $316,265,600 $197,171,806 1989
91 Terminator 2: Judgment Day TriS $311,400,800 $204,843,345 1991
92 Sergeant York WB $307,988,400 $16,361,885 1941
93 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Uni. $307,883,700 $260,044,825 2000
94 Toy Story 2 BV $306,153,700 $245,852,179 1999
95 Top Gun Par. $304,969,000 $176,786,701 1986
96 Shrek DW $302,660,100 $267,665,011 2001
97 The Matrix Reloaded WB $298,854,000 $281,576,461 2003
98 Crocodile Dundee Par. $295,695,700 $174,803,506 1986
99 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse MPC $293,877,500 $9,183,673 1921
100 Saving Private Ryan DW $292,781,300 $216,540,909 1998
 

Who Will Reason?
Jill Carattini

There are times when I wonder with the professor from The Lion, the
Witch, and the Wardrobe where logic has gone from the world's
curriculum.

Peter and Susan had come to him concerned about their younger sister
Lucy's outlandish tales of a land hidden deep within an old wardrobe. The
professor listened carefully as they reasoned it out before him, admitting
their bewilderment with Lucy's strange behavior and their confusion over
how to deal with her. Sighing, the professor lamented, "Why don't they
teach logic at these schools?" Either Lucy is telling lies, he explained,
or she is mad, or she is telling the truth. But since she was obviously
not mad, nor was she the one among the Pevensie children known for a
propensity for lies, her vivid descriptions were not so easily
dismissible. In fact, it was most likely Lucy was telling the
truth. "Nothing is more probable," said the professor, as he muttered to
himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools."
Logic, it seems, has fallen out of fashion.

An article in the recent news describes a case in Italy against a priest
who is being accused of unlawfully misleading the public by presenting
Jesus in his parish newsletter as an historical figure. "Christ never
existed, but is an invention of the Church," says the man who has been
attempting to bring this case to trial since 2002. The accuser, himself a
professed atheist, claims the priest has violated an article under the
Italian penal code which, under the term "abuse of popular gullibility,"
sanctions people who mislead others. A judge who had earlier refused to
take up the case was overruled last month by the Court of Appeal, which
held the accuser had a reasonable case for his allegation. Preliminary
hearings against the priest are set to take place this month.

Although he comes to a conclusion himself that many would find
unreasonable, the accuser in this case is right in saying it is a question
the world-many Christians included-takes for granted. Was Jesus of
Nazareth a real person? Did the one many call the Christ ever really
exist? As absurd as I find the accusations in this case, I am thrilled
that the question is being asked: Are there historical proofs behind the
remarkable presence of this first century Jewish rabbi?

"[O]n the question of the existence," writes R. Scott Appleby, a professor
of church history at Notre Dame, "there is more evidence of the existence
of Jesus of Nazareth than there would be for many other historical people
who actually existed. Not only did Jesus actually exist, but he actually
had some kind of prominence to be mentioned in two or three chronicles."


In addition to the massive archives provided by each of the four Gospel
writers, the life of Jesus of Nazareth and the extent to which he created
a stir far beyond the land of his birth are chronicled by Christian and
non-Christian writers alike. Jewish historian Flavius Josephus is
considered by scholars to be the most important non-Christian source on
Christ's existence. Also archived in history are the writings of Pliny
the Younger, who in the early second century described a policy of
executing Christians who refused to curse Christ, as well as Tacitus,
another historian of the same period who wrote that Jesus was executed
under the authority of Pontius Pilate.

The historical evidence of the existence of Jesus cannot be erased from
any reasonable history book. There is a solid basis upon which one can
intelligently believe in Jesus as a person who actually existed. He
cannot rationally be exposed as a myth. What this means for those who
will reason is that a real person from Nazareth left a sizable mark on
history and started a chain of events moving far beyond his 33 years. The
next question was posed by Jesus himself: "But who do you say that I am?"

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