List of 1997 box office number-one films in Italy

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the box office in Italy during 1997. Amounts are in lire. Box office figures limited to 147 main situations, representing about 74% of potential income.

Number one films

†	This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year.

#	Weekend ending	Film	Box office	Notes	Ref
1	January 5, 1997	The Cyclone	3,772,933,360		[1]
2	January 12, 1997		4,636,718,960		[2]
3	January 19, 1997		4,827,440,900		[3]
4	January 26, 1997		4,320,988,770		[4]
5	February 2, 1997		3,293,198,400		[5]
6	February 9, 1997		2,587,726,400		[6]
7	February 16, 1997		2,117,522,550		[7]
8	February 23, 1997	Space Jam	2,697,347,400		[8]
9	March 2, 1997		2,925,243,750		[9]
10	March 9, 1997	Jerry Maguire	1,954,085,400		[10]
11	March 16, 1997		1,700,000,000		[11]
12	March 23, 1997	101 Dalmatians	3,124,717,300	101 Dalmatians reached number one in its second week of release	[12]
13	March 30, 1997		2,787,663,400		[13]
14	April 6, 1997		1,867,754,300		[14]
15	April 13, 1997	The Devil's Own	1,045,464,300	The Devil's Own reached number one in its third week of release	[15]
16	April 20, 1997	Dante's Peak	1,140,536,800	Dante's Peak reached number one in its second week of release.	[16]
17	April 27, 1997	Liar Liar	1,793,098,800		[17]
18	May 4, 1997		732,502,400		[18]
19	May 11, 1997	The Saint	937,981,800		[19]
20	May 18, 1997		594,320,000		[20]
21	May 25, 1997	Absolute Power	960,685,300		[21]
22	June 1, 1997		1,048,362,800		[22]
23	June 8, 1997		386,134,600		[23]
24	June 15, 1997		193,495,700		[24]
25	June 22, 1997		259,787,200		[25]
26	June 29, 1997		230,548,900		[26]
27	July 6, 1997		138,170,900		[27]
28	July 13, 1997		78,157,500		[28]
29	July 20, 1997		68,741,200		[29]
30	July 27, 1997	The Cyclone	51,066,000	The Cyclone returned to number one in its 34th week of release	[30]
31	August 3, 1997		TBD
32	August 10, 1997
33	August 17, 1997	Con Air	93,000,000		[31]
34	August 24, 1997		464,269,582	Gross for the week	[31]
35	August 31, 1997	Batman & Robin	1,559,723,832		[32]
36	September 7, 1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	3,269,994,000		[33]
37	September 14, 1997		3,104,383,600		[34]
38	September 21, 1997	Air Force One	1,990,936,500		[35]
39	September 28, 1997		1,702,186,200		[36]
40	October 5, 1997	Men in Black	3,362,698,040		[37]
41	October 12, 1997		2,493,704,160		[38]
42	October 19, 1997	Fireworks	9,279,744,000	Fireworks set an opening record in Italy with a gross of L17 billion nationally.	[39][40][41]
43	October 26, 1997		9,008,930,000		[42]
44	November 2, 1997		7,442,319,500		[43]
45	November 9, 1997		4,092,331,800		[44]
46	November 16, 1997		2,224,492,500		[45]
47	November 23, 1997	Bean	4,589,872,500		[46]
48	November 30, 1997		6,656,999,400		[47]
49	December 7, 1997		3,541,069,400		[48]
50	December 14, 1997	Hercules	1,905,936,300	Hercules reached number one in its fifth week of release	[49]
51	December 21, 1997		TBD
52	December 28, 1997	Life Is Beautiful †	9,200,000,000		[50]

See also

• Lists of box office number-one films