| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Tootsie | $4,252,876 | $3,430,963 | 80.7% | $821,913 | 19.3% | 1,092 | 17 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Spring Break | $4,033,518 | $3,319,782 | 82.3% | $713,736 | 17.7% | 1,463 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Outsiders | $3,814,407 | $3,142,294 | 82.4% | $672,113 | 17.6% | 1,002 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | High Road to China | $3,179,636 | $2,548,852 | 80.2% | $630,784 | 19.8% | 1,162 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Gandhi | $3,165,395 | $2,178,715 | 68.8% | $986,680 | 31.2% | 805 | 18 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Max Dugan Returns | $3,081,891 | $2,581,050 | 83.8% | $500,841 | 16.2% | 763 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Monty Python's the Meaning of Life | $2,705,546 | $2,167,389 | 80.1% | $538,157 | 19.9% | 330 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $2,144,166 | $1,461,292 | 68.2% | $682,874 | 31.8% | 836 | 44 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Bad Boys | $1,695,636 | $1,344,828 | 79.3% | $350,808 | 20.7% | 458 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Sword in the Stone | $1,680,713 | $1,360,351 | 80.9% | $320,362 | 19.1% | 614 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | My Tutor | $1,076,532 | $733,005 | 68.1% | $343,527 | 31.9% | 201 | 6 | Crown | - | false |
| 12 | The Verdict | $1,016,899 | $744,669 | 73.2% | $272,230 | 26.8% | 452 | 18 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | The Black Stallion Returns | $979,312 | $1,216,151 | 124.2% | $-236,839 | - | 830 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 14 | Local Hero | $363,662 | $291,398 | 80.1% | $72,264 | 19.9% | 41 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Screwballs | - | - | - | - | - | 128 | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Man, Woman and Child | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Sophie's Choice | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Losin' It | - | $437,257 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | Going Ape! | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Howling | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | The King of Comedy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | 48 Hrs. | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Raiders of the Lost Ark 1983 Re-release | - | $929,803 | - | - | - | - | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
