| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Spring Break | $8,468,778 | $5,908,574 | 69.8% | $2,560,204 | 30.2% | 1,493 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Outsiders | $7,250,800 | $5,068,165 | 69.9% | $2,182,635 | 30.1% | 829 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | High Road to China | $5,482,445 | $4,095,158 | 74.7% | $1,387,287 | 25.3% | 1,504 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | The Black Stallion Returns | $4,239,905 | $2,923,297 | 69% | $1,316,608 | 31% | 1,370 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 5 | Tootsie | $4,163,337 | $3,127,164 | 75.1% | $1,036,173 | 24.9% | 1,027 | 15 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Max Dugan Returns | $3,816,028 | $2,791,002 | 73.1% | $1,025,026 | 26.9% | 790 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | The Sword in the Stone | $3,292,213 | $2,230,614 | 67.8% | $1,061,599 | 32.2% | 487 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Bad Boys | $3,114,388 | $2,171,197 | 69.7% | $943,191 | 30.3% | 468 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Gandhi | $2,142,612 | $1,565,567 | 73.1% | $577,045 | 26.9% | 461 | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Raiders of the Lost Ark 1983 Re-release | $1,984,359 | $1,327,451 | 66.9% | $656,908 | 33.1% | 628 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | 48 Hrs. | $1,383,075 | $953,860 | 69% | $429,215 | 31% | 609 | 16 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Tough Enough | $1,033,705 | $725,117 | 70.2% | $308,588 | 29.8% | 538 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $724,336 | $536,129 | 74% | $188,207 | 26% | 336 | 42 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | My Tutor | $311,846 | $214,564 | 68.8% | $97,282 | 31.2% | 79 | 4 | Crown | - | false |
| - | Table for Five | - | - | - | - | - | 181 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Thief | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | The Man from Snowy River | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Trenchcoat | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Lords of Discipline | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Year of Living Dangerously | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | 10 to Midnight | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
