| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Silkwood | $4,544,058 | $3,547,122 | 78.1% | $996,936 | 21.9% | 816 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Terms of Endearment | $4,503,443 | $3,383,539 | 75.1% | $1,119,904 | 24.9% | 903 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Never Cry Wolf | $3,367,356 | $2,679,108 | 79.6% | $688,248 | 20.4% | 491 | 17 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Hot Dog... The Movie | $3,034,387 | $2,415,665 | 79.6% | $618,722 | 20.4% | 1,173 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 5 | The Lonely Guy | $2,585,000 | $2,072,130 | 80.2% | $512,870 | 19.8% | 717 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Yentl | $2,465,972 | $1,851,461 | 75.1% | $614,511 | 24.9% | 747 | 11 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | Sudden Impact | $2,287,215 | $1,743,949 | 76.2% | $543,266 | 23.8% | 1,003 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Scarface | $1,874,000 | $1,469,520 | 78.4% | $404,480 | 21.6% | 624 | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Uncommon Valor | $1,788,676 | $1,406,213 | 78.6% | $382,463 | 21.4% | 870 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Big Chill | $1,383,145 | $1,092,153 | 79% | $290,992 | 21% | 692 | 18 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Angel | $1,285,459 | $1,124,780 | 87.5% | $160,679 | 12.5% | 356 | 3 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Broadway Danny Rose | $1,278,818 | $953,794 | 74.6% | $325,024 | 25.4% | 109 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Gorky Park | $1,039,978 | $786,217 | 75.6% | $253,761 | 24.4% | 475 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Right Stuff | $352,123 | $278,022 | 79% | $74,101 | 21% | 92 | 15 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Slayground | $108,128 | $108,128 | 100% | $0 | - | 62 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Star 80 | - | $412,566 | - | - | - | 94 | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Christine | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Buddy System | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Two of a Kind | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Scandalous | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
