| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Police Academy | $11,863,740 | $8,570,007 | 72.2% | $3,293,733 | 27.8% | 1,063 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Splash | $8,665,378 | $6,667,242 | 76.9% | $1,998,136 | 23.1% | 1,018 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Footloose | $5,782,936 | $4,420,411 | 76.4% | $1,362,525 | 23.6% | 1,360 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Ice Pirates | $3,615,732 | $2,904,480 | 80.3% | $711,252 | 19.7% | 1,174 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 5 | Tank | $3,511,000 | $2,861,950 | 81.5% | $649,050 | 18.5% | 1,295 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Against All Odds | $2,939,518 | $2,218,270 | 75.5% | $721,248 | 24.5% | 861 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Racing with the Moon | $2,378,900 | $1,803,432 | 75.8% | $575,468 | 24.2% | 389 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Children of the Corn | $2,011,858 | $1,720,309 | 85.5% | $291,549 | 14.5% | 650 | 3 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Terms of Endearment | $1,739,887 | $1,258,295 | 72.3% | $481,592 | 27.7% | 730 | 19 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Blame It on Rio | $1,073,032 | $782,047 | 72.9% | $290,985 | 27.1% | 563 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Weekend Pass | $1,039,085 | $702,736 | 67.6% | $336,349 | 32.4% | 334 | 8 | Crown | - | false |
| 12 | Lassiter | $965,861 | $709,060 | 73.4% | $256,801 | 26.6% | 662 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | Unfaithfully Yours | $874,420 | $656,855 | 75.1% | $217,565 | 24.9% | 515 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | This Is Spinal Tap | $143,395 | $99,411 | 69.3% | $43,984 | 30.7% | 10 | 4 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Big Chill | - | - | - | - | - | 165 | 26 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Hotel New Hampshire | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
