| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills Cop | $6,538,852 | $5,114,137 | 78.2% | $1,424,715 | 21.8% | 1,482 | 14 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Witness | $6,283,230 | $4,791,953 | 76.3% | $1,491,277 | 23.7% | 1,165 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Missing in Action 2: The Beginning | $5,000,664 | $3,868,515 | 77.4% | $1,132,149 | 22.6% | 1,336 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 4 | The Breakfast Club | $4,634,217 | $3,622,950 | 78.2% | $1,011,267 | 21.8% | 1,074 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Sure Thing | $3,975,707 | $3,124,782 | 78.6% | $850,925 | 21.4% | 1,115 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 6 | The Killing Fields | $2,398,323 | $1,780,982 | 74.3% | $617,341 | 25.7% | 651 | 18 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Vision Quest | $2,164,607 | $1,702,651 | 78.7% | $461,956 | 21.3% | 828 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | A Passage to India | $1,601,442 | $1,393,859 | 87% | $207,583 | 13% | 541 | 12 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | 1984 | $1,562,851 | $1,299,030 | 83.1% | $263,821 | 16.9% | 265 | 12 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 10 | The Falcon and the Snowman | $1,554,139 | $1,005,561 | 64.7% | $548,578 | 35.3% | 602 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Amadeus | $1,364,942 | $1,000,472 | 73.3% | $364,470 | 26.7% | 435 | 24 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | $191,312 | $114,095 | 59.6% | $77,217 | 40.4% | 3 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | A Private Function | $38,140 | $25,333 | 66.4% | $12,807 | 33.6% | 1 | 1 | Island Alive | - | false |
| - | Tuff Turf | - | $747,364 | - | - | - | 456 | 8 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Britannia Hospital | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | United Artists | - | false |
| - | The Mean Season | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Mischief | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Turk 182 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Fast Forward | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
