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Domestic Box Office For May 1990
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In-month releases
Calendar grosses
All releases
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Limited releases
Rank
Release
Genre
Budget
Running Time
Gross
Max Th
Opening
% of Total
Open Th
Open
Close
Distributor
Estimated
1
Back to the Future Part III
-
-
-
$87,727,583
2,070
$19,089,645
21.8%
2,019
May 25
-
Universal Pictures
false
2
Bird on a Wire
-
-
-
$70,978,012
2,008
$15,338,160
21.6%
1,944
May 18
-
Universal Pictures
false
3
Cadillac Man
-
-
-
$27,627,310
1,878
$6,712,079
24.3%
1,826
May 18
-
Orion Pictures
false
4
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
-
-
-
$16,324,573
1,535
$5,028,096
30.8%
1,535
May 4
-
Paramount Pictures
false
5
Fire Birds
-
-
-
$14,760,451
2,006
$6,358,761
43.1%
2,006
May 25
-
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
false
6
Longtime Companion
-
-
-
$4,609,953
85
$50,525
1.1%
2
May 11
-
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
false
7
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
-
-
-
$4,087,361
82
$65,299
1.6%
2
May 4
-
Miramax
false
8
Short Time
-
-
-
$4,010,647
574
$1,237,211
30.8%
557
May 4
-
Twentieth Century Fox
false
9
Class of 1999
-
-
-
$2,459,895
320
$767,620
31.2%
320
May 11
Jun 21
Taurus Entertainment Company
false
10
Def by Temptation
-
-
-
$2,218,579
57
$54,582
2.5%
11
May 11
-
Troma
false
11
Last Exit to Brooklyn
-
-
-
$1,730,005
25
$186,489
10.8%
13
May 4
-
Cinecom Pictures
false
12
Jesus of Montreal
-
-
-
$1,601,612
21
$20,388
1.3%
1
May 25
Nov 15
Orion Classics
false
13
Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
-
-
-
$1,373,728
150
$313,844
22.8%
150
May 4
-
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
false
14
Without You I'm Nothing
-
-
-
$1,218,730
-
-
-
-
May 4
Aug 30
New Line Cinema
false
15
Strapless
-
-
-
$764,794
-
-
-
-
May 18
-
Miramax
false
16
A Show of Force
-
-
-
$91,578
12
$73,405
80.2%
12
May 11
-
Paramount Pictures
false
17
Happy Together
-
-
-
$70,912
10
$32,776
46.2%
10
May 4
May 17
Borde Releasing
false
18
Pathfinder
-
-
-
$10,628
1
$3,950
37.2%
1
May 11
May 24
International Film Exchange (IFEX)
false
19
The Feud
-
-
-
$3,102
1
$2,236
72.1%
1
May 4
May 10
Castle Hill Productions
false