Movie Fact: Seven is the Seventh Highest Grossing Movie of 1995




Starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. McGinley, Kevin Spacey

Written by Andrew Kevin Walker

Directed by David Fincher

Distributed by New Line Cinema

Release Date    September 22, 1995

Running Time  127 minutes



Seven is a crime-drama-thriller movie about a young and novice detective named David Mills, who together with an old and retiring partner, William Somerset, was tasked with the uncanny job of tracking down a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins or capital vices of mankind namely: Lust, Gluttony, 
Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride  as themes for his crimes.  It was directed by David Fincher, the same man who directed Brad Pitt in Fight Club in 1999 and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2008.  

Seven was both a critical and box-office success in 1995 and went on to become the seventh-highest-grossing film in 1995, garnering a total of approximately $327 million worldwide*.  It was also nominated for Best Film Editing courtesy of Australian film editor Richard Francis-Bruce at the 68th Academy Award

The other six top grossing films of 1995 were  Die Hard with a Vengeance, Toy Story, Apollo 13, GoldenEye, Pocahontas and Batman Forever.



Statistics about the movie are from Box Office Mojo
*http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1995

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