| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Teachers | $5,832,204 | $4,579,286 | 78.5% | $1,252,918 | 21.5% | 1,721 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 2 | Places in the Heart | $4,419,997 | $3,440,272 | 77.8% | $979,725 | 22.2% | 688 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | All of Me | $4,148,782 | $3,342,857 | 80.6% | $805,925 | 19.4% | 1,173 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Irreconcilable Differences | $2,286,167 | $1,837,565 | 80.4% | $448,602 | 19.6% | 892 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Ghostbusters | $2,207,367 | $1,743,706 | 79% | $463,661 | 21% | 1,107 | 19 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | A Soldier's Story | $2,066,234 | $1,551,490 | 75.1% | $514,744 | 24.9% | 223 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Karate Kid | $1,769,868 | $1,226,063 | 69.3% | $543,805 | 30.7% | 906 | 17 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Purple Rain | $1,744,813 | $1,306,205 | 74.9% | $438,608 | 25.1% | 747 | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | The Wild Life | $1,458,510 | $1,171,061 | 80.3% | $287,449 | 19.7% | 909 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Amadeus | $1,429,808 | $1,016,836 | 71.1% | $412,972 | 28.9% | 118 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Evil That Men Do | $1,199,466 | $1,081,020 | 90.1% | $118,446 | 9.9% | 721 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Country | $791,216 | $539,895 | 68.2% | $251,321 | 31.8% | 89 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Songwriter | $671,483 | $497,406 | 74.1% | $174,077 | 25.9% | 499 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $376,028 | $293,593 | 78.1% | $82,435 | 21.9% | 88 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | Garbo Talks | $172,552 | $127,192 | 73.7% | $45,360 | 26.3% | 16 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Ninja III: The Domination | - | $1,498,411 | - | - | - | 420 | 5 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Tightrope | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | - | - | - | - | - | - | 22 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
