| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $12,505,866 | -27.6% | 32.4% | 2 | Pet Sematary | $8,380,098 | 67% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 2 | 2 | $11,341,666 | +131.6% | 29.4% | 4 | K-9 | $7,471,035 | 65.9% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 4 | 3 | $2,618,098 | -31.2% | 6.8% | 2 | Say Anything | $2,291,334 | 87.5% | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 5 | 6 | $2,502,834 | +5.3% | 6.5% | 2 | Rain Man | $1,729,486 | 69.1% | 20 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 7 | 5 | $1,605,218 | -36.5% | 4.2% | 2 | She's Out of Control | $1,313,611 | 81.8% | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 8 | 4 | $1,329,923 | -49.1% | 3.4% | 3 | See You in the Morning | $980,067 | 73.7% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 9 | 7 | $832,004 | -57.8% | 2.2% | 1 | Red Scorpion | $832,004 | 100% | 2 | Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment | - |
| 10 | 9 | $713,233 | -51.7% | 1.8% | 2 | Speed Zone | $561,770 | 78.8% | 2 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 12 | 10 | $121,752 | -13.5% | 0.3% | 1 | Heathers | $121,752 | 100% | 5 | New World Pictures | - |
