| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Witness | $6,149,810 | $4,506,587 | 73.3% | $1,643,223 | 26.7% | 1,169 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Beverly Hills Cop | $5,902,406 | $4,427,390 | 75% | $1,475,016 | 25% | 1,474 | 15 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Breakfast Club | $4,418,079 | $3,298,436 | 74.7% | $1,119,643 | 25.3% | 1,006 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Sure Thing | $3,762,278 | $2,894,217 | 76.9% | $868,061 | 23.1% | 1,086 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 5 | Missing in Action 2: The Beginning | $2,999,316 | $2,323,800 | 77.5% | $675,516 | 22.5% | 1,288 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 6 | The Killing Fields | $2,249,729 | $1,608,401 | 71.5% | $641,328 | 28.5% | 607 | 19 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Vision Quest | $1,798,672 | $1,358,738 | 75.5% | $439,934 | 24.5% | 745 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | A Passage to India | $1,489,773 | $1,075,039 | 72.2% | $414,734 | 27.8% | 515 | 13 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | 1984 | $1,395,073 | $1,201,674 | 86.1% | $193,399 | 13.9% | 274 | 13 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 10 | Amadeus | $1,245,816 | $831,126 | 66.7% | $414,690 | 33.3% | 387 | 25 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Falcon and the Snowman | $1,040,349 | $747,180 | 71.8% | $293,169 | 28.2% | 475 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Mask | $203,977 | $135,499 | 66.4% | $68,478 | 33.6% | 4 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Into the Night | - | $2,574,438 | - | - | - | 1,096 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Say Amen, Somebody | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | The Grey Fox | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Certain Fury | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Tuff Turf | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
