Box Office Game — September 26, 2026 Answer

Here is the Box Office Game answer for Saturday, September 26, 2026 (day #1668 of the game): the weekend of November 15, 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 #1668
The weekend to guessNovember 15, 1991Friday — top 5 at the US box office
1
Poster of the #1 movie
Cape Fear
UniversalNew this weekendWeek 1 in release
Weekend$10,261,025Total$10,261,025
2
Poster of the #2 movie
Curly Sue
Warner Bros.Last week #1Week 4 in release-15.2% vs last week
Weekend$4,203,421Total$22,776,629
3
Poster of the #3 movie
All I Want For Christmas
ParamountLast week #4Week 2 in release-8.5% vs last week
Weekend$3,336,175Total$8,214,260
4
Poster of the #4 movie
The People Under the Stairs
UniversalLast week #2Week 3 in release-31.5% vs last week
Weekend$3,014,320Total$15,557,568
5
Poster of the #5 movie
Little Man Tate
Orion PicturesLast week #5Week 6 in release-30% vs last week
Weekend$2,155,044Total$17,272,335

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About the five films

Cape Fear poster

#1 Cape Fear IMDb →

“Sam Bowden has always provided for his family's future. But the past is coming back to haunt them.”

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Director: Martin Scorsese · Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange · Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller · Budget: $35,000,000 · Worldwide: $182,300,000 · Domestic total: $79,091,969
Curly Sue poster

#2 Curly Sue IMDb →

“A funny story about a family... And the little girl who started it.”

Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue. Bill and Curly Sue target Grey, a yuppie lawyer, but their con takes an unexpected turn when the successful woman begins to like the ramshackle duo. But there's one problem—Grey's jealous, conniving boyfriend, Walker.

Director: John Hughes · Starring: Jim Belushi, Alisan Porter, Kelly Lynch · Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance · Budget: $25,000,000 · Worldwide: $33,691,313 · Domestic total: $33,691,313
All I Want For Christmas poster

#3 All I Want For Christmas IMDb →

“How far would you go to make a wish come true?”

Siblings Ethan and Hallie O'Fallon plot to get their divorced parents back together in time for Christmas.

Director: Rob Lieberman · Starring: Lauren Bacall, Thora Birch, Ethan Embry · Genre: Family, Drama, Comedy · Budget: $0 · Worldwide: $14,812,144 · Domestic total: $14,812,144
The People Under the Stairs poster

#4 The People Under the Stairs IMDb →

“In every neighborhood, there is one house that adults whisper about and children cross the street to avoid.”

Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true nature of the homicidal inhabitants, and secret creatures hidden deep within the walls.

Director: Wes Craven · Starring: Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie · Genre: Horror, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller · Budget: $6,000,000 · Worldwide: $31,400,000 · Domestic total: $24,204,154
Little Man Tate poster

#5 Little Man Tate IMDb →

“It's not what he knows. It's what he understands.”

Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.

Director: Jodie Foster · Starring: Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest, Adam Hann-Byrd · Genre: Drama, Family · Budget: $10,000,000 · Worldwide: $25,010,896 · Domestic total: $25,010,896

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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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