| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 2 | Beverly Hills Cop | $6,109,523 | +3.5% | 1,470 | -4 | $4,156 | $188,002,706 | 16 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 2 | 1 | Witness | $5,962,253 | -3% | 1,169 | - | $5,100 | $39,201,759 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | 3 | The Breakfast Club | $4,376,337 | -0.9% | 1,037 | +31 | $4,220 | $24,645,123 | 5 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 4 | 4 | The Sure Thing | $3,468,389 | -7.8% | 1,063 | -23 | $3,262 | $11,206,374 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 5 | - | Into the Night | $2,534,138 | - | 1,091 | -5 | $2,322 | $6,151,106 | 4 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | 6 | The Killing Fields | $2,251,785 | <0.1% | 650 | +43 | $3,464 | $26,115,337 | 20 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 7 | 5 | Missing in Action 2: The Beginning | $1,838,833 | -38.7% | 1,030 | -258 | $1,785 | $9,838,813 | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | false | false |
| 8 | 7 | Vision Quest | $1,685,836 | -6.3% | 679 | -66 | $2,482 | $11,545,105 | 5 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 9 | 8 | A Passage to India | $1,444,729 | -3% | 537 | +22 | $2,690 | $23,735,370 | 14 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 10 | 10 | Amadeus | $1,369,620 | +9.9% | 390 | +3 | $3,511 | $33,113,600 | 26 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 11 | 9 | 1984 | $1,260,300 | -9.7% | 260 | -14 | $4,847 | $6,150,427 | 14 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | false | false |
| 12 | - | Lost in America | $404,244 | - | 6 | - | $67,374 | $404,244 | 1 | Warner Bros. | true | false |
| 13 | - | DEFCON-4 | $301,291 | - | 54 | - | $5,579 | $301,291 | 1 | New World Pictures | true | false |
