| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Flashdance | $5,682,222 | $4,095,000 | 72.1% | $1,587,222 | 27.9% | 1,140 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | $3,103,849 | $2,423,555 | 78.1% | $680,294 | 21.9% | 817 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Valley Girl | $2,583,211 | $1,856,780 | 71.9% | $726,431 | 28.1% | 442 | 1 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 4 | The Hunger | $2,541,809 | $1,832,898 | 72.1% | $708,911 | 27.9% | 775 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 5 | Tootsie | $2,474,934 | $1,951,612 | 78.9% | $523,322 | 21.1% | 865 | 20 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Lone Wolf McQuade | $2,006,629 | $1,542,618 | 76.9% | $464,011 | 23.1% | 884 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Monty Python's the Meaning of Life | $1,712,308 | $1,286,609 | 75.1% | $425,699 | 24.9% | 541 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Gandhi | $1,662,753 | $1,303,096 | 78.4% | $359,657 | 21.6% | 579 | 21 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Outsiders | $1,407,226 | $1,106,552 | 78.6% | $300,674 | 21.4% | 706 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | My Tutor | $1,285,441 | $734,621 | 57.2% | $550,820 | 42.8% | 475 | 9 | Crown | - | false |
| 11 | Max Dugan Returns | $1,246,847 | $1,013,283 | 81.3% | $233,564 | 18.7% | 546 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $1,091,302 | $852,950 | 78.2% | $238,352 | 21.8% | 502 | 47 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Spring Break | $994,982 | $929,787 | 93.4% | $65,195 | 6.6% | 683 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Local Hero | $801,858 | $618,203 | 77.1% | $183,655 | 22.9% | 190 | 11 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Tender Mercies | $162,830 | $117,238 | 72% | $45,592 | 28% | 37 | 9 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | High Road to China | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Hard Country | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Sophie's Choice | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | 48 Hrs. | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
