What Was the Biggest Movie the Year You Were Born?
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From Disney classics like Mary Poppins and Aladdin, action-packed blockbusters like Independence Day, and multiple films from the Star Wars franchise, we've rounded up the top-grossing film from each year between 1960 and 2006. Which movie made the most money the year you (and your friends and family) were born? Scroll through now to find out.
1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Total gross: $102,308,889
- Runner-up: Midnight Cowboy
1977: Star Wars
- Total gross: $307,263,857
- Runner-up: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer
- Total gross: $130,770,210
- Runner-up: The Amityville Horror
1980: Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back
- Total gross: $209,398,025
- Runner-up: 9 to 5
1983: Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi
- Total gross: $252,583,617
- Runner-up: Terms of Endearment
1985: Back to the Future
- Total gross: $210,609,762
- Runner-up: Rambo: First Blood Part II
1989: Batman
- Total gross: $251,188,924
- Runner-up: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Total gross: $204,843,345
- Runner-up: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1999: Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace
- Total gross: $431,088,295
- Runner-up: The Sixth Sense
2000: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Total gross: $260,044,825
- Runner-up: Cast Away
2001: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Total gross: $317,575,550
- Runner-up: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002: Spider-Man
- Total gross: $403,706,375
- Runner-up: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Total gross: $377,027,325
- Runner-up: Finding Nemo
2005: Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith
- Total gross: $380,270,577
- Runner-up: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2006: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Total gross: $423,315,812
- Runner-up: Night at the Museum