| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment | $15,180,977 | $10,675,896 | 70.3% | $4,505,081 | 29.7% | 1,613 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Mask | $6,965,990 | $4,807,470 | 69% | $2,158,520 | 31% | 839 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Care Bears Movie | $5,828,076 | $3,725,001 | 63.9% | $2,103,075 | 36.1% | 1,003 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 4 | Friday the 13th: A New Beginning | $5,433,951 | $4,029,934 | 74.2% | $1,404,017 | 25.8% | 1,759 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Porky's Revenge | $4,904,328 | $3,659,762 | 74.6% | $1,244,566 | 25.4% | 1,420 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi 1985 Re-release | $4,460,256 | $3,209,056 | 72% | $1,251,200 | 28% | 849 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | The Last Dragon | $4,459,174 | $3,122,050 | 70% | $1,337,124 | 30% | 1,039 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend | $4,266,343 | $3,002,713 | 70.4% | $1,263,630 | 29.6% | 1,259 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Beverly Hills Cop | $3,817,568 | $2,715,010 | 71.1% | $1,102,558 | 28.9% | 1,037 | 18 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Witness | $3,353,259 | $2,386,253 | 71.2% | $967,006 | 28.8% | 978 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Amadeus | $2,961,792 | $2,013,210 | 68% | $948,582 | 32% | 546 | 28 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | King David | $2,848,936 | $2,212,481 | 77.7% | $636,455 | 22.3% | 730 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Desperately Seeking Susan | $2,386,344 | $1,526,098 | 64% | $860,246 | 36% | 268 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Breakfast Club | $2,206,338 | $1,528,300 | 69.3% | $678,038 | 30.7% | 580 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Killing Fields | $1,337,543 | $931,582 | 69.6% | $405,961 | 30.4% | 375 | 22 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 16 | The Slugger's Wife | $1,314,993 | $1,314,993 | 100% | $0 | - | 898 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | $1,271,103 | $932,734 | 73.4% | $338,369 | 26.6% | 125 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | 1984 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Places in the Heart | - | - | - | - | - | - | 28 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Heart Like a Wheel | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
