Box Office Game — August 22, 2026 Answer

Here is the Box Office Game answer for Saturday, August 22, 2026 (day #1633 of the game): the weekend of June 7, 1991 — a 1991 box office chart. The clues the game gives you (distributor, last week’s rank, weeks in release and the grosses) are shown for all five films; the titles and posters stay blurred until you tap reveal.

Top 5 answer · Day #1633
The weekend to guessJune 7, 1991Friday — top 5 at the US box office
1
Poster of the #1 movie
City Slickers
Columbia PicturesNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$13,032,121Total$13,032,121
2
Poster of the #2 movie
Backdraft
UniversalLast week #1Week 3 in release-29.5% vs last week
Weekend$6,425,100Total$38,513,490
3
Poster of the #3 movie
Jungle Fever
UniversalNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$5,332,860Total$5,332,860
4
Poster of the #4 movie
What About Bob?
TouchstoneLast week #3Week 4 in release-24.4% vs last week
Weekend$4,858,284Total$39,518,490
5
Poster of the #5 movie
Soapdish
ParamountLast week #2Week 2 in release-34.7% vs last week
Weekend$4,401,514Total$14,081,172

No spoilers — titles and posters stay blurred until you tap.

About the five films

City Slickers poster

#1 City Slickers IMDb →

“Yesterday they were businessmen. Today they're cowboys. Tomorrow they'll be walking funny.”

Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.

Director: Ron Underwood · Starring: Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby · Genre: Comedy, Western · Budget: $27,000,000 · Worldwide: $179,033,791 · Domestic total: $124,033,791
Backdraft poster

#2 Backdraft IMDb →

“Silently behind a door, it waits. One breath of oxygen and it explodes in a deadly rage. In that instant it can create a hero...or cover a secret.”

Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes.

Director: Ron Howard · Starring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro · Genre: Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime · Budget: $75,000,000 · Worldwide: $152,368,585 · Domestic total: $77,868,585
Jungle Fever poster

#3 Jungle Fever IMDb →

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.

Director: Spike Lee · Starring: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee · Genre: Drama, Romance · Budget: $14,000,000 · Worldwide: $32,482,682 · Domestic total: $32,482,682
What About Bob? poster

#4 What About Bob? IMDb →

“Bob's a special kind of friend. The kind that drives you crazy.”

Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.

Director: Frank Oz · Starring: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty · Genre: Comedy · Budget: $35,000,000 · Worldwide: $63,710,000 · Domestic total: $63,707,829
Soapdish poster

#5 Soapdish IMDb →

“All that glitter... All that glamour... All that dirt.”

Celeste Talbert is the star of the long-running soap opera "The Sun Also Sets." With the show's ratings down, Celeste's ruthlessly ambitious co-star, Montana Moorehead, and the show's arrogant producer, David Seton Barnes, plot to aggravate her into leaving the show by bringing back her old flame, Jeffrey Anderson, and hiring her beautiful young niece, Lori Craven.

Director: Michael Hoffman · Starring: Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr. · Genre: Comedy · Budget: $25,000,000 · Worldwide: $36,489,888 · Domestic total: $36,489,888

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Box Office Game (boxofficega.me) hands you one weekend from box office history and asks you to name the five highest-grossing films from that weekend, in order. You start with only the weekend date and each film’s weekend gross; every clue you buy (distributor, last week’s rank, total gross, budget, director, cast and so on) costs points off your score. The page above lists exactly those clues for each slot so you can match your own guesses before revealing. This page is part of our complete daily archive, updated every morning.

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