| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Teachers | $4,363,475 | $3,448,610 | 79% | $914,865 | 21% | 1,411 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 2 | Thief of Hearts | $4,107,778 | $3,091,670 | 75.3% | $1,016,108 | 24.7% | 1,200 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Places in the Heart | $3,764,738 | $3,133,493 | 83.2% | $631,245 | 16.8% | 759 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Little Drummer Girl | $3,513,791 | $2,632,719 | 74.9% | $881,072 | 25.1% | 820 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | All of Me | $3,264,478 | $2,597,318 | 79.6% | $667,160 | 20.4% | 1,118 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Razor's Edge | $3,112,449 | $2,411,311 | 77.5% | $701,138 | 22.5% | 1,036 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | A Soldier's Story | $2,092,714 | $1,578,635 | 75.4% | $514,079 | 24.6% | 289 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Ghostbusters | $2,022,880 | $1,572,599 | 77.7% | $450,281 | 22.3% | 890 | 20 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Irreconcilable Differences | $1,523,547 | $1,215,837 | 79.8% | $307,710 | 20.2% | 803 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Crimes of Passion | $1,519,595 | $1,103,210 | 72.6% | $416,385 | 27.4% | 325 | 1 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Purple Rain | $1,519,594 | $1,124,609 | 74% | $394,985 | 26% | 751 | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | The Karate Kid | $1,399,485 | $1,030,451 | 73.6% | $369,034 | 26.4% | 782 | 18 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Ninja III: The Domination | $1,396,522 | $966,859 | 69.2% | $429,663 | 30.8% | 432 | 6 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 14 | Amadeus | $1,317,908 | $936,675 | 71.1% | $381,233 | 28.9% | 124 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Country | $1,128,860 | $825,657 | 73.1% | $303,203 | 26.9% | 218 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $309,832 | $250,947 | 81% | $58,885 | 19% | 99 | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The Wild Life | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Evil That Men Do | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Songwriter | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Garbo Talks | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
