LONGEST TIME TO REACH #1
1982-Present
(Ties are broken by release date in favor of the older movies.)

Note: This chart shows movies that took more than 2 weeks to reach #1, regardless of sorting.

Rank	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weeks to #1	Weekend Gross	Weekend	Total Gross^	Release**
1	A Fish Called Wanda	MGM	10	$2,555,291	9/16/88	$62,493,712	7/15/88
2	Absence of Malice	Col.	9	$3,290,111	1/15/82	$40,716,963	11/20/81
3	On Golden Pond	Uni.	8	$3,853,902	1/22/82	$119,285,432	12/4/81
4	Aladdin	BV	8	$15,642,073	1/01/93	$217,350,219	11/13/92
5	There's Something About Mary	Fox	8	$8,810,209	9/04/98	$176,484,651	7/15/98
6	Silkwood	Fox	7	$3,547,122	1/27/84	$35,615,609	12/16/83
7	Platoon	Orion	7	$8,352,394	1/30/87	$138,530,565	12/19/86
8	Driving Miss Daisy	WB	7	$5,705,721	1/26/90	$106,593,296	12/15/89
9	An Officer and a Gentleman	Par.	6	$7,711,202	9/03/82	$129,795,554	7/30/82
10	Mr. Mom	Fox	6	$6,445,106	8/26/83	$64,783,827	7/22/83
11	The Color Purple	WB	6	$4,412,456	1/24/86	$94,175,854	12/20/85
12	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Gram.	6	$4,162,489	4/15/94	$52,700,832	3/11/94
13	Witness	Par.	5	$4,506,587	3/08/85	$68,706,993	2/8/85
14	Gran Torino	WB	5	$29,484,388	1/09/09	$148,095,302	12/12/08
15	Paranormal Activity	Par.	5	$21,104,070	10/23/09	$107,918,810	9/25/09
16	The Revenant	Fox	5	$16,009,718	1/22/16	$183,637,894	12/25/15
17	Sharky's Machine	WB	4	$2,850,839	1/08/82	$35,610,100	12/18/81
18	Jagged Edge	Col.	4	$3,216,053	10/25/85	$40,491,165	10/4/85
19	Out of Africa	Uni.	4	$5,137,370	1/10/86	$87,071,205	12/20/85
20	Stand by Me	Col.	4	$5,037,343	8/29/86	$52,287,414	8/8/86
21	Good Morning, Vietnam	BV	4	$11,752,913	1/15/88	$123,922,370	12/25/87
22	Philadelphia	TriS	4	$13,817,010	1/14/94	$77,446,440	12/24/93
23	Legends of the Fall	Sony	4	$14,038,128	1/13/95	$66,638,883	12/23/94
24	Black Hawk Down	SonR	4	$28,611,736	1/18/02	$108,638,745	12/28/01
25	Zero Dark Thirty	Sony	4	$24,438,936	1/11/13	$95,720,716	12/19/12
26	American Sniper	WB	4	$89,269,066	1/16/15	$350,126,372	12/25/14
27	The Money Pit	Uni.	3	$3,646,200	4/11/86	$37,499,651	3/28/86
28	Colors	Orion	3	$6,524,536	4/29/88	$46,616,067	4/15/88
29	Rain Man	MGM	3	$14,350,610	12/30/88	$172,825,435	12/16/88
30	Christmas Vacation	WB	3	$7,233,119	12/15/89	$71,319,526	12/1/89
31	Born on the Fourth of July	Uni.	3	$11,023,650	1/05/90	$70,001,698	12/22/89
32	Curly Sue	WB	3	$4,957,474	11/08/91	$33,691,313	10/25/91
33	Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas	BV	3	$8,212,477	10/29/93	$50,003,043	10/15/93
34	The Santa Clause	BV	3	$20,437,607	11/25/94	$144,833,357	11/11/94
35	Mr. Holland's Opus	BV	3	$8,297,082	1/26/96	$82,569,971	12/29/95
36	A Civil Action	BV	3	$15,163,484	1/08/99	$56,709,981	12/25/98
37	Wedding Crashers	NL	3	$20,023,159	7/29/05	$209,255,921	7/15/05
38	The Bucket List	WB	3	$19,392,416	1/11/08	$93,466,502	12/25/07
39	The Blind Side	WB	3	$20,043,181	12/04/09	$255,959,475	11/20/09
40	The Princess and the Frog	BV	3	$24,208,916	12/11/09	$104,400,899	11/25/09
41	True Grit	Par.	3	$14,605,135	1/07/11	$171,243,005	12/22/10
42	Argo	WB	3	$12,085,059	10/26/12	$136,025,503	10/12/12
43	Frozen	BV	3	$31,616,230	12/06/13	$400,738,009	11/22/13
44	Lone Survivor	Uni.	3	$37,849,910	1/10/14	$125,095,601	12/25/13
45	Inside Out	BV	3	$29,771,224	7/03/15	$356,461,711	6/19/15
46	Hidden Figures	Fox	3	$22,800,057	1/06/17	$169,387,004	12/25/16
47	Flashdance	Par.	2	$4,085,494	4/22/83	$92,921,203	4/15/83
48	A Christmas Story	MGM	2	$3,935,944	11/25/83	$19,294,144	11/18/83
49	Terms of Endearment	Par.	2	$3,125,453	12/02/83	$108,423,489	11/23/83
50	The Witches of Eastwick	WB	2	$8,251,230	6/19/87	$63,766,510	6/12/87
51	Stakeout	BV	2	$5,574,782	8/14/87	$65,673,233	8/7/87
52	Gorillas in the Mist	Uni.	2	$3,451,230	9/30/88	$24,720,479	9/23/88
53	Three Fugitives	BV	2	$5,477,051	2/03/89	$40,586,886	1/27/89
54	Ghost	Par.	2	$12,523,295	7/20/90	$217,631,306	7/13/90
55	Dead Again	Par.	2	$6,315,869	8/30/91	$38,016,380	8/23/91
56	The Fisher King	TriS	2	$7,067,908	9/27/91	$41,895,491	9/20/91
57	A League of Their Own	Sony	2	$11,660,303	7/10/92	$107,533,928	7/1/92
58	Dave	WB	2	$8,506,834	5/14/93	$63,270,710	5/7/93
59	The Beverly Hillbillies	Fox	2	$7,178,556	10/22/93	$44,029,386	10/15/93
60	With Honors	WB	2	$3,741,737	5/06/94	$20,016,254	4/29/94
61	The Lion King	BV	2	$40,888,194	6/24/94	$312,855,561	6/15/94
62	Pocahontas	BV	2	$29,531,619	6/23/95	$141,579,773	6/16/95
63	12 Monkeys	Uni.	2	$13,842,990	1/05/96	$57,141,459	12/29/95
64	A Bug's Life	BV	2	$33,258,052	11/27/98	$162,798,565	11/20/98
65	Toy Story 2	BV	2	$57,388,839	11/26/99	$245,852,179	11/19/99
66	Bridget Jones's Diary	Mira.	2	$10,184,136	4/20/01	$71,543,427	4/13/01
67	Road to Perdition	DW	2	$15,412,515	7/19/02	$104,454,762	7/12/02
68	Elf	NL	2	$26,325,613	11/14/03	$173,398,518	11/7/03
69	Madagascar	DW	2	$28,110,235	6/03/05	$193,595,521	5/27/05
70	Bee Movie	P/DW	2	$25,565,462	11/09/07	$126,631,277	11/2/07
71	Tangled	BV	2	$21,608,891	12/03/10	$200,821,936	11/24/10
72	The Help	BV	2	$20,018,659	8/19/11	$169,708,112	8/10/11
73	Dolphin Tale	WB	2	$13,912,419	9/30/11	$72,286,779	9/23/11
74	Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol	Par.	2	$29,556,629	12/23/11	$209,397,903	12/16/11
75	Safe House	Uni.	2	$23,641,575	2/17/12	$126,373,434	2/10/12
76	Mr. Peabody & Sherman	Fox	2	$21,809,249	3/14/14	$111,506,430	3/7/14
77	War Room	TriS	2	$9,480,535	9/04/15	$67,790,117	8/28/15

CHART NOTES
* Friday of the weekend it reached #1.
^ Total Gross does not include additional releases, if any.
** Initial release date.
Italics indicate four-day weekend.

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