| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Big Chill | $3,552,493 | $2,204,754 | 62.1% | $1,347,739 | 37.9% | 826 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Amityville 3-D | $3,458,433 | $2,366,472 | 68.4% | $1,091,961 | 31.6% | 1,254 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | A Christmas Story | $3,355,759 | $2,072,473 | 61.8% | $1,283,286 | 38.2% | 886 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | Never Say Never Again | $3,031,611 | $1,845,278 | 60.9% | $1,186,333 | 39.1% | 1,045 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | A Night in Heaven | $2,744,008 | $1,835,421 | 66.9% | $908,587 | 33.1% | 901 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | All the Right Moves | $2,287,761 | $1,492,986 | 65.3% | $794,775 | 34.7% | 823 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Richard Pryor... Here and Now | $1,955,487 | $1,261,797 | 64.5% | $693,690 | 35.5% | 791 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Deal of the Century | $1,581,040 | $1,143,745 | 72.3% | $437,295 | 27.7% | 965 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | The Dead Zone | $1,539,733 | $1,003,425 | 65.2% | $536,308 | 34.8% | 700 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Right Stuff | $1,437,225 | $927,452 | 64.5% | $509,773 | 35.5% | 229 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Educating Rita | $1,268,648 | $853,385 | 67.3% | $415,263 | 32.7% | 368 | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Savage Islands | $1,161,940 | $815,160 | 70.2% | $346,780 | 29.8% | 925 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Terms of Endearment | $1,091,189 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Of Unknown Origin | $171,681 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Golden Seal | - | $920,018 | - | - | - | 418 | 14 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | The Smurfs and the Magic Flute | - | $1,180,582 | - | - | - | 183 | 7 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | The Osterman Weekend | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Mr. Mom | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Risky Business | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Man of Iron | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Running Brave | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
