15. Jerry Maguire (1996)
$273.6 million
Jerry Maguire grossed $273.6 million out of $50 million Budget.Plot:
Jerry Maguire is a slick 35-year-old sports agent working for Sports Management International (SMI). After criticism from an injured player’s son triggers a life-altering epiphany, he writes a mission statement about perceived dishonesty in the sports management business and his desire to work with fewer clients to produce a better, more caring personal relationship with them. In turn, SMI management sends Bob Sugar, Jerry’s protégé, to fire him. This spurs Jerry and Sugar to each call all of Jerry’s clients to try to convince them not to hire the services of the other. Jerry speaks to Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Rod Tidwell, one of his clients who is disgruntled with his contract. He needs a $10 million contract for his family to live on. Jerry informs him if he gets injured for the season, he will get no money from the Cardinals. Rod tests Jerry’s resolve through a very long telephone conversation, while Sugar persuades the rest of Jerry’s clients to stick with SMI.
14. Oblivion (2013)
$287.9 million
Oblivion 2013 grossed $287.9 million out of $120 million Budget.Plot:
Jack and Victoria are the last ones left on Earth in 2077. In 2017, scavenger aliens decimated the Moon and invaded Earth; although humans won the war, Earth was left uninhabitable. With Victoria as his communications officer, Jack repairs combat drones that hunt the remaining scavengers and guard the hydrothermal platforms that convert seawater into fusion energy. The work is reported to Sally, the mission commander aboard the “Tet”, a space station orbiting Earth once a day. Within two weeks, the group will be departing for Saturn’s moon, Titan, to join surviving colonists there. Though Jack and Victoria’s memories have been wiped, Jack dreams of a pre-war life with an unknown woman.
13. Rain Man (1988)
$354.8 million
Rain Man grossed $354.8 million out of $25 million Budget.Plot:
Collectibles dealer Charlie Babbitt is in the middle of importing four grey market Lamborghinis to Los Angeles for resale. He needs to deliver the cars to impatient buyers, who have already made down payments, in order to repay the loan he took out to buy them, but the EPA is holding the cars at the port because they have failed emissions tests. Charlie directs an employee to lie to the buyers while he stalls his creditor. When Charlie learns that his estranged father Sanford Babbitt has died, he and his girlfriend Susanna travel to Cincinnati in order to settle the estate. He inherits only a group of rosebushes and a classic 1949 Buick Roadmaster convertible over which he and his father clashed, while the remainder of the $3 million estate is going to an unnamed trustee. He learns that the money is being directed to a local mental institution, where he meets his elder brother, Raymond, of whom he was unaware his whole life.
12. Top Gun (1986)
$357.3 million
Top Gun grossed $357.3 million out of $15 million Budget.Plot:
United States Naval Aviator Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Lieutenant Junior Grade Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, stationed in the Indian Ocean aboard the USS Enterprise, fly the F-14A Tomcat. During an interception with two hostile MiG-28s,[a] Maverick missile-locks on one, while the other hostile locks onto Maverick’s wingman, Cougar. Maverick drives it off, but Cougar is so shaken that Maverick defies orders to land and shepherds him back to the carrier. Cougar resigns his commission. Maverick and Goose are sent in his place by CAG “Stinger” to attend Top Gun, the Naval Fighter Weapons School at Naval Air Station Miramar.RELATED:
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11. Minority Report (2002)
$358.4 million
Minority Report grossed $358.4 million out of $102 million Budget.Plot:
In 2054, the federal government plans to nationally implement the Washington, D.C. prototype “Precrime” police program. Three clairvoyant humans (“precogs”) receive psychic impressions of an impending homicide, and officers analyze their visions to determine the crime’s location and apprehend the perpetrator before the crime occurs. Would-be killers are placed in an electrically induced coma and held in a panopticon-like prison facility. Although Precrime has eliminated nearly all premeditated murders during its six-year existence, spontaneous crimes of passion called “red ball” killings (which give police an hour or less to stop the murder) still occur.
10. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
$370.5 million
Edge of Tomorrow grossed $370.5 million out of $178 million Budget.Plot.
The film takes place in a future where most of Europe is occupied by an alien race. Major William Cage (Cruise), a public relations officer with limited combat experience, is forced by his superiors to join a landing operation against the aliens, only to find himself experiencing a time loop as he tries to find a way to defeat the invaders.
9. The Last Samurai (2003)
$456.8 million
The Last Samurai grossed $456.8 million out of $140 million Budget.Plot:
In 1876, former U.S. Army Captain Nathan Algren, a seasoned soldier turned bitter alcoholic traumatized by the atrocities he committed during the Indian Wars, is approached by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bagley. Bagley asks him to train the newly created Imperial Japanese Army for the Japanese businessman Omura, who intends to use the army to put down a samurai rebellion against the new Emperor of Japan. Despite his hatred of Bagley, an impoverished Algren accepts the job for the money. His old friend Sergeant Zebulon Gant accompanies him to Japan. Upon arrival, Algren meets Simon Graham, a British translator well versed in Samurai
8. Mission: Impossible (1996)
$457.7 million
Mission: Impossible grossed $457.7 million out of $80 million Budget.Plot:
After finishing a mission in Kiev, Jim Phelps and his latest IMFteam are sent to Prague to stop rogue agent Alexander Golitsyn from stealing the CIA NOC list. However, the mission unexpectedly fails after the list is stolen and the team is killed one by one, along with Golitsyn, leaving Phelps’s pointman Ethan Hunt the only survivor. Hunt is debriefed by IMF director Eugene Kittridge in a restaurant. Hunt realizes that another IMF team was present during the mission and learns that the operation was a setup to lure out a mole within the IMF with the help of Golitsyn, who was posing as the rogue agent. The mole is believed to be working with an arms dealer named “Max” as part of “Job 314”. Realizing that Kittridge suspects he is the mole, Hunt escapes by using exploding chewing gum given to him before the mission.
7. Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
$546.4 illion
Mission: Impossible 2 grossed $546.4 million out of $120-125 million Budget.Plot:
Dr. Vladimir Nekhorvich, a bio-chemical expert, sends a message to the IMF for Dmitri (Ethan Hunt’s cover name), his old friend. He warns that his employer, Biocyte Pharmaceuticals, forced him to develop a biological weapon to profit from the cure. He injects himself with the Chimera virus and carries its remedy Bellerophon in a bag. However, IMF agent Sean Ambrose, who was disguised as Dmitri, goes rogue, betrays Nekhorvich, and steals Bellerophon. IMF director Swanbeck informs Ethan about Ambrose’s wrongdoings and tasks him with recovering the virus and its cure. He has him recruit Nyah Nordoff-Hall, a professional thief presently operating in Seville, Spain—and Ambrose’s ex-girlfriend. Despite her initial reluctance, Ethan gets her to trace Ambrose to Sydney, Australia, where Biocyte laboratories are located.RELATED:
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6. Mission: Impossible III (2006)
$550.5 million
Mission: Impossible 3 grossed $550.5 million out of $150–186 million Budget.Plot:
Ethan Hunt has retired from IMF fieldwork. He trains recruits and has settled down with his fiancée, nurse Julia Meade, who is unaware of his real job. He is approached by IMF Assistant Director of Operations John Musgrave about a special mission to rescue one of his protégés, Lindsey Farris, who was captured while investigating arms dealer Owen Davian. Musgrave has already prepared a team for Ethan: Declan Gormley, Zhen Lei, and old partner Luther Stickell. The team rescues Lindsey in Berlin and collects two damaged laptops. As they flee, Ethan discovers an explosive pellet implanted in Lindsey’s head. Before he can disable it with a defibrillator, it kills her. IMF Director Theodore Brassel reprimands Ethan and Musgrave. Ethan learns that Lindsey mailed him a postcard before her capture and discovers a magnetic microdot under the stamp.
5. War of the Worlds (2005)
$603.9 million
War of the Worlds grossed $603.9 million out of $132 million Budget.Plot:
An opening narration explains that Earth was being observed by extraterrestrials with immense intelligence and no compassion: “As man dominated the world, without a doubt, much in the way microorganisms swarm in a drop of water, these beings plotted to take it all from them.” Divorced longshoreman Ray Ferrier works as a crane operator at a dock in Brooklyn, New York, and is estranged from his children: 10-year-old daughter Rachel, and teenage son Robbie. Ray’s pregnant former wife, Mary Ann, drops the two off at his house in Bayonne, New Jersey on her way to visit her parents in Boston. Later, a strange storm occurs during which lightning strikes multiple times into the middle of a nearby intersection, causing an EMP that instantly fries almost all electronic devices. Ray reluctantly joins the crowd at the scene of the impacts, where a massive “tripod” war machine emerges from the ground and uses powerful energy weapons to destroy the area, disintegrating most of the witnesses into gray ash.
4. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
$682.7 million
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation grossed $682.7 million out of $150 million Budget.Plot:
Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his team are on the run from the Central Intelligence Agency following the disbandment of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) and must go to war with the Syndicate, an international black ops terrorist organization composed of rogue government agents from all over the world.
3. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
$694.7 million
Impossible – Ghost Protocol grossed $694.7 million out of $145 million Budget.Plot:
IMF agent Trevor Hanaway is killed in Budapest by assassin Sabine Moreau, who steals Russian nuclear launch codes to sell to the mysterious “Cobalt”. IMF agent Ethan Hunt is extracted from a Moscow prison, along with an asset named Bogdan, by Hanaway’s handler and girlfriend Jane Carter and newly-promoted field agent Benji Dunn. The team is ordered to infiltrate the Kremlin for information on Cobalt. While they are inside, Cobalt blows the team’s cover and they escape before a bomb destroys much of the Kremlin. Jane and Benji escape, but Ethan is arrested by SVR agent Anatoly Sidorov and is blamed for the bombing.
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
$791.7 million
Mission: Impossible – Fallout grossed $791.7 million out of $178 million Budget.Plot:
Two years after Solomon Lane’s capture, the remnants of the Syndicate have reorganized as a terrorist group known as the Apostles, having adopted the ‘Terror for hire’ policy. They are hired by an extremist known as John Lark, and are attempting to acquire three stolen plutonium cores for him to use in three nuclear bombs. IMF Agent Ethan Hunt is assigned to recover the plutonium. During the mission, the Apostles take fellow teammate Luther Stickell hostage. Ethan chooses to save Stickell, allowing the Apostles to steal the cores and resulting in the mission to fail. The IMF team later captures Norwegian nuclear weapons expert Nils Delbruuk, whom the CIA believes is building weapons for Lark. Using a fake broadcast of teammate Benji Dunn posing as CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and announcing the bombings of Rome, Jerusalem and Mecca, they trick Delbruuk into unlocking a phone he used to communicate with Lark.
1. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
$1.489 billion
Top Gun: Maverick grossed $1.489 billion out of $170 million Budget.Plot:
More than 30 years after graduating from Top Gun,[a] United States Navy Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is a test pilot. Despite many achievements, repeated insubordination has kept him from flag rank;[b] his friend and former Top Gun rival, Admiral Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, now commander of the Pacific Fleet, often protects Maverick. Rear Admiral Chester “Hammer” Cain plans to cancel Maverick’s hypersonic “Darkstar” scramjet program in favor of funding drones. To save the program, Maverick unilaterally changes the target speed for that day’s test from Mach 9 to the final contract specification of Mach 10. However, the prototype is destroyed when he cannot resist pushing beyond Mach 10. Iceman again saves Maverick’s career by assigning him to the Top Gun school at NAS North Island for his next assignment, but Cain tells Maverick that the era of crewed fighter aircraft will soon be over.RELATED:
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