| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills Cop | $7,451,920 | $5,857,274 | 78.6% | $1,594,646 | 21.4% | 1,515 | 13 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Witness | $6,652,787 | $5,163,819 | 77.6% | $1,488,968 | 22.4% | 957 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Breakfast Club | $5,303,758 | $4,263,383 | 80.4% | $1,040,375 | 19.6% | 1,118 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Killing Fields | $2,903,468 | $2,227,148 | 76.7% | $676,320 | 23.3% | 658 | 17 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Vision Quest | $2,721,627 | $2,108,450 | 77.5% | $613,177 | 22.5% | 993 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | A Passage to India | $2,180,304 | $1,677,005 | 76.9% | $503,299 | 23.1% | 645 | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Falcon and the Snowman | $1,506,538 | $1,295,776 | 86% | $210,762 | 14% | 715 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Mean Season | $1,499,498 | $1,077,225 | 71.8% | $422,273 | 28.2% | 862 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Amadeus | $1,480,495 | $1,093,433 | 73.9% | $387,062 | 26.1% | 478 | 23 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Mischief | $1,364,209 | $1,067,414 | 78.2% | $296,795 | 21.8% | 823 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Turk 182 | $1,220,041 | $980,240 | 80.3% | $239,801 | 19.7% | 801 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | Fast Forward | $903,293 | $903,293 | 100% | $0 | - | 1,138 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Places in the Heart | - | - | - | - | - | 266 | 23 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | 1984 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Heaven Help Us | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | The Girl with the Red Hair | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | United Artists | - | false |
