What Was The Top Movie From The Year You Were Born?

There’s nothing like a trip down movie memory lane to make you feel like a kid again — or a super old adult, depending on how far back you go and how few computer graphics programs were available at the time.

Special effects aside, the film industry has seen some major changes since we were kids, even if some of us were only kids 15 years ago. So what was the top movie from the year you were born?

1977 — Star Wars

“Star Wars” introduced audiences to the greatest space opera of all time and marked the beginning of the decades-long love/hate relationship fans would have with George Lucas and his work.

1978 — Grease

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It’s a movie that all kids grow up on, regardless of the decade in which they were actually born. Seriously, who wouldn’t want to be a member of the T-Birds or Pink Ladies? Its soundtrack was also the second-best selling album that year, because “You’re the One That I Want”

is a musical treasure.

1979 — Kramer vs. Kramer

This family drama, about the toll a divorce takes on the people involved, was not only the highest grossing film of its year, but it also won big at the 1980 Academy Awards, taking home the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

1980 — The Empire Strikes Back

Arguably the best film in the entire “Star Wars” franchise, “Empire” took on a darker tone than its predecessor, putting the spotlight on the Empire’s response to the Rebel win three years prior. And it gave us “I am your father,”

which is a part of every geek’s vocabulary to this day.