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Top Grossing Comedy Movies in 1988

Rank Title Language Domestic Worldwide
1 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
English

UK

$156,452,370 $329,803,958
2 Coming to America
English

UK

$128,152,301 $288,752,301
3 Crocodile Dundee II
English

UK

$109,306,210 $239,606,210
4 Twins
English

UK

$111,938,388 $216,614,388
5 Cocktail
Tamil

TA

$78,222,753 $171,504,781
6 Big $115,227,281 $151,927,281
7 Good Morning, Vietnam
English

UK

$123,922,370 $123,923,090
8 Working Girl
English

UK

$63,779,477 $102,953,112
9 The Night Before
English

UK

$48,336,291 $84,704,291
10 Midnight Run
English

UK

$38,413,606 $81,613,606
11 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
English

UK

$78,756,177 $78,756,177
12 Beetlejuice
English

UK

$74,664,632 $74,852,535
13 Oliver & Company
English

UK

$74,151,346 $74,151,346
14 A Fish Called Wanda
English

UK

$62,493,712 $62,493,712
15 Scrooged
English

UK

$60,328,558 $60,329,560
16 Beaches
English

UK

$57,041,866 $57,041,866
17 Biloxi Blues
English

UK

$43,184,798 $51,684,798
18 Bull Durham
English

UK

$50,888,729 $50,888,729
19 Young Guns
English

UK

$45,661,556 $45,661,556
20 The Great Outdoors
English

UK

$41,455,230 $43,455,230
21 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
English

UK

$42,039,085 $42,039,085
22 Big Business
English

UK

$40,150,487 $40,150,487
23 Red Heat
English

UK

$34,994,648 $34,994,648
24 Ernest Saves Christmas
English

UK

$28,202,109 $28,202,109
25 Funny Farm
English

UK

$25,537,221 $25,537,221
26 Cocoon: The Return
English

UK

$18,924,919 $25,024,919
27 License to Drive
English

UK

$22,433,275 $22,433,275
28 Married to the Mob
English

UK

$21,486,757 $21,486,757
29 Punchline
English

UK

$21,042,667 $21,042,667
30 Action Jackson
Hindi

IN

$20,256,975 $20,256,975
31 Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach
English

UK

$19,510,371 $19,510,371
32 Johnny Be Good
English

UK

$17,550,399 $17,550,399
33 For Keeps?
English

UK

$17,514,553 $17,514,553
34 She's Having a Baby
English

UK

$16,031,707 $16,031,707
35 Big Top Pee-wee
English

UK

$15,122,324 $15,122,324
36 School Daze
English

UK

$14,545,844 $14,545,844
37 My Stepmother Is an Alien
English

UK

$13,854,000 $13,854,000
38 Vice Versa
English

UK

$13,664,060 $13,664,060
39 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
English

UK

$13,030,057 $13,030,057
40 Mystic Pizza
English

UK

$12,793,213 $12,793,213
41 Caddyshack II
english

UK

$11,798,302 $11,798,302
42 Moving
English

UK

$10,815,378 $10,815,378
43 Hope and Glory
English

UK

$10,021,120 $10,021,120
44 Return of the Living Dead II
English

UK

$9,205,924 $9,205,924
45 High Spirits
English

UK

$8,578,231 $8,578,231
46 Satisfaction
English

UK

$8,253,123 $8,253,123
47 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Spanish

ES

$7,251,740 $7,305,816
48 Hairspray
English

UK

$6,671,108 $6,679,652
49 Hot to Trot
English

UK

$6,436,211 $6,436,211
50 Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
English

UK

$5,596,267 $5,596,267

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