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The year
1993 in film involved many significant films. (For more about films in foreign languages, check sources in those languages.)
Events
- The film Jurassic Park, a dinosaur epic with massive special effects, breaks box-office records with a plot described as a "roller-coaster ride through a haunted house."
- Family romance film Sleepless in Seattle revives the genre of the Courtship of Eddie's Father, with an extensive soundtrack of oldies music.
- March 31 - Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow.
- April 12 - Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from Lenny Kravitz.
- April 17 - The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs marries screenwriter Jay Roach in Los Angeles, California.
- Actress Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy after a California judge orders her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the movie Boxing Helena. As a result, Basinger loses the town that she purchased in 1989, Braselton, Georgia, to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech.
- May 28 - Produced by Hollywood Pictures , Super Mario Bros. opens, marking the first video game film released.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Domestic
|
| 1.
| Jurassic Park
| Universal Studios
| $357,000,000
|
| 2.
| Mrs. Doubtfire
| Fox
| $219,195,243
|
| 3.
| The Fugitive
| Warner Bros.
| $183,875,760
|
| 4.
| The Firm
| Paramount
| $158,348,367
|
| 5.
| Sleepless in Seattle
| TriStar
| $126,680,884
|
| 6.
| Indecent Proposal
| Paramount
| $106,614,059
|
| 7.
| In the Line of Fire
| Columbia
| $102,314,823
|
| 8.
| The Pelican Brief
| Warner Bros.
| $100,768,056
|
| 9.
| Schindler's List
| Universal
| $96,065,768
|
| 10.
| Cliffhanger
| TriStar
| $84,049,211
|
source:
boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1993&p=.htm