| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | On Golden Pond | $9,286,994 | $6,526,822 | 70.3% | $2,760,172 | 29.7% | 1,015 | 12 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Making Love | $2,424,571 | $1,805,935 | 74.5% | $618,636 | 25.5% | 371 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Chariots of Fire | $2,266,830 | $1,689,149 | 74.5% | $577,681 | 25.5% | 293 | 22 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | $1,801,000 | $1,442,813 | 80.1% | $358,187 | 19.9% | 668 | 37 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Border | $1,571,525 | $1,571,525 | 100% | $0 | - | 741 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Taps | $1,458,270 | $1,131,010 | 77.6% | $327,260 | 22.4% | 689 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Arthur | $1,288,016 | $997,606 | 77.4% | $290,410 | 22.6% | 619 | 32 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Reds | $1,272,275 | $1,272,275 | 100% | $0 | - | 576 | 12 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Absence of Malice | $1,233,394 | $893,845 | 72.5% | $339,549 | 27.5% | 646 | 14 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Cannery Row | $880,000 | $880,000 | 100% | $0 | - | 620 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 11 | Night Crossing | $850,000 | $850,000 | 100% | $0 | - | 440 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Barbarosa | $359,816 | $285,312 | 79.3% | $74,504 | 20.7% | 187 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Shoot the Moon | - | $1,870,000 | - | - | - | 585 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Das Boot | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | One from the Heart | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Beast Within | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
