https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1994&p=.htm

Top 25 box office:
1 Forrest Gump
2 The Lion King
3 True Lies
4 The Santa Clause
5 The Flintstones
6 Dumb and Dumber
7 Clear and Present Danger
8 Speed
9 The Mask
10 Pulp Fiction
11 Interview with the Vampire
12 Maverick
13 The Client
14 Disclosure
15 Star Trek: Generations
16 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
17 Stargate
18 Legends of the Fall
19 Wolf
20 The Specialist
21 Four Weddings and a Funeral
22 The Little Rascals
23 The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
24 The Crow
25 Natural Born Killers


Honorable mentions in the next 75:
48 A Low Down Dirty Shame
51 The Shawshank Redemption
72 The Professional
77 Sugar Hill
89 Above the Rim
96 Crooklyn
98 Greedy

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>6 Dumb and Dumber
>9 The Mask
>16 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Man, I forgot just how big Jim Carrey was at this time.

>11 Interview with the Vampire
>12 Maverick
>13 The Client

CROOZE apparently wasn't far behind Carrey. I don't know much about Cruise the man, but he's carved out a legendary career. Like he's still opening blockbusters today decades after he broke with Risky Business.

>25 Natural Born Killers

Haven't seen Mother, which seems it might be the closet parallel to NBK in the sense that their release was controversial. (although Mother much less so than NBK) But 1. Hollywood would never greenlight a movie like NBK nowadays and 2. likely the public wouldn't accept it.

Truly a different time.

>24 The Crow
For some reason I didn't think The Crow was this popular. Brandon Lee's death got a lot of pub back then but for some reason I thought it was just a cult movie.

>48 A Low Down Dirty Shame
>77 Sugar Hill
>89 Above the Rim

I'm surprised that A Low Down Dirty Shame did better at the box office than Sugar Hill and Above the Rim. I didn't see it until after it was in the theaters. But my friends and I all saw Above the Rim. I guess Above the Rim was more of a young folks movie than it seemed at the time. Dope soundtrack tho.

>51 The Shawshank Redemption
It's interesting that this movie has probably made more post-release from TV and cable than it did during its initial run.