| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $8,331,232 | - | - | - | - | 1,687 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Natural | $7,378,905 | $5,423,233 | 73.5% | $1,955,672 | 26.5% | 989 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Breakin' | $5,032,648 | $4,036,396 | 80.2% | $996,252 | 19.8% | 1,116 | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 4 | Romancing the Stone | $4,664,382 | $3,531,769 | 75.7% | $1,132,613 | 24.3% | 1,101 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Firestarter | $4,166,439 | $3,107,506 | 74.6% | $1,058,933 | 25.4% | 1,374 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Police Academy | $3,613,039 | $2,808,194 | 77.7% | $804,845 | 22.3% | 1,412 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Sixteen Candles | $3,298,841 | $2,688,730 | 81.5% | $610,111 | 18.5% | 1,111 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Making the Grade | $2,328,972 | $1,760,856 | 75.6% | $568,116 | 24.4% | 1,197 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 9 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $1,894,032 | $1,440,242 | 76% | $453,790 | 24% | 765 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Footloose | $1,719,575 | $1,279,264 | 74.4% | $440,311 | 25.6% | 750 | 14 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Splash | $1,643,008 | $1,047,496 | 63.8% | $595,512 | 36.2% | 551 | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Moscow on the Hudson | $1,526,400 | $1,082,920 | 71% | $443,480 | 29% | 562 | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Bounty | $1,390,977 | $1,000,733 | 71.9% | $390,244 | 28.1% | 455 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Finders Keepers | $1,157,868 | $865,207 | 74.7% | $292,661 | 25.3% | 753 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Terms of Endearment | - | - | - | - | - | 350 | 27 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | This Is Spinal Tap | - | $350,835 | - | - | - | 199 | 12 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | Hardbodies | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
