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Weekend box office chart - UK, US and Global

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UK box office chart top 15 for
40 years ago - 29th November - 1st December 1985

Weekend
Gross

Total
Gross

Weeks
on chart

% +/-

1. 2↑	Hover To Score From 2 users	Cocoon 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Ron Howard Starring Don Ameche Wilford Brimley Hume Cronyn 14.21%	£204,231	£3,008,639	12	+14%
2. NEW	Hover To Score From 1 user	Santa Claus: The Movie 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Jeannot Szwarc Starring Dudley Moore John Lithgow David Huddleston 14.12%	£202,850	£202,850	New	NEW
3. NEW	Hover To Score From 5 users	The Goonies 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Richard Donner Starring Sean Astin Josh Brolin Jeff Cohen 13.51%	£194,117	£194,117	New	NEW
4. NEW	Hover To Score YOUR SCORE?	Red Sonja 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Richard Fleischer Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger Brigitte Nielsen Sandahl Bergman 11.47%	£164,867	£164,867	New	NEW
5. 1↓	Hover To Score YOUR SCORE?	Letter to Brezhnev 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Chris Bernard Starring Peter Firth Alfred Molina Alexandra Pigg 10.72%	£154,094	£799,620	3	-21%
6. 4↓	Hover To Score From 1 user	My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Stephen Frears Starring Daniel Day-Lewis Richard Graham Winston Graham 9.68%	£139,150	£649,775	3	-6%
7. 5↓	Hover To Score YOUR SCORE?	Prizzis Honor 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by John Huston Starring Jack Nicholson Kathleen Turner Robert Loggia 6.22%	£89,384	£530,417	3	-25%
8. 3↓	Hover To Score YOUR SCORE?	Plenty 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Fred Schepisi Starring Meryl Streep Andre Maranne Sam Neill 6.11%	£87,856	£288,245	2	-48%
9. 7↓	Hover To Score YOUR SCORE?	Cat's Eye 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Lewis Teague Starring Drew Barrymore James Woods Alan King 4.32%	£62,138	£570,789	4	-33%
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10. 6↓	Hover To Score From 2 users	Weird Science 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by John Hughes Starring Anthony Michael Hall Kelly LeBrock Ilan Mitchell-Smith 3.01%	£43,270	£549,790	5	-57%
11. 8↓	Hover To Score From 2 users	St. Elmo's Fire 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Joel Schumacher Starring Rob Lowe Demi Moore Emilio Estevez 2.6%	£37,422	£783,916	5	-50%
12. 9↓	Hover To Score From 1 user	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by George Miller George Ogilvie Starring Mel Gibson Tina Turner Bruce Spence 2.23%	£32,096	£1,333,062	7	-50%
13. 10↓	Hover To Score From 2 users	The Black Cauldron 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Ted Berman Richard Rich Starring Grant Bardsley Susan Sheridan Freddie Jones 0.64%	£9,186	£1,076,534	8	-33%
14. 11↓	Hover To Score From 1 user	Subway 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Luc Besson Starring Christopher Lambert Isabelle Adjani Richard Bohringer 0.38%	£5,430	£157,943	4	-60%
15. 12↓	Hover To Score From 1 user	Fletch 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Michael Ritchie Starring Chevy Chase Joe Don Baker Dana Wheeler-Nicholson 0.33%	£4,729	£1,188,616	10	-50%
16. 13↓	Hover To Score YOUR SCORE?	The Bride 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Franc Roddam Starring Sting Jennifer Beals Anthony Higgins 0.21%	£3,037	£265,039	6	-60%
17. 14↓	Hover To Score YOUR SCORE?	Pale Rider 1985 MORE Follow Movie Page Review Join Salty Popcorn Directed by Clint Eastwood Starring Clint Eastwood Michael Moriarty Chris Penn 0.21%	£2,969	£1,909,773	9	-50%

UK Weekend Cinema Box Office
40 years ago, 29th Nov 1985 - 1st Dec 1985

Zootopia 2
Weekend Gross: £2,767,509
Total UK gross: £15,531,866
Wicked: For Good
Weekend Gross: £1,856,430
Total UK gross: £40,724,713
Five Nights At Freddy's 2
Weekend Gross: £1,016,400
Total UK gross: £5,280,982
Dhurandhar
Weekend Gross: £593,726
Total UK gross: £1,230,944
Fackham Hall
Weekend Gross: £407,006
Total UK gross: £407,006
The Nutcracker: ROH London 2025
Weekend Gross: £225,056
Total UK gross: £225,056
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Weekend Gross: £216,102
Total UK gross: £6,570,212
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Weekend Gross: £183,191
Total UK gross: £183,191
Eternity
Weekend Gross: £181,347
Total UK gross: £849,490
Home Alone
Weekend Gross: £181,298
Total UK gross: £3,803,716
The Shining
Weekend Gross: £181,116
Total UK gross: £181,116
The Polar Express
Weekend Gross: £125,708
Total UK gross: £872,250
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Weekend Gross: £89,900
Total UK gross: £162,248
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
Weekend Gross: £88,339
Total UK gross: £1,044,203
Nuremberg
Weekend Gross: £87,829
Total UK gross: £3,285,974

^* We get our box office data from many sources, one of which is Comscore, Inc and we are ever greatful for the service they provide us and other box office data websites.

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