| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Commando | $10,399,449 | $7,700,015 | 74% | $2,699,434 | 26% | 1,495 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Jagged Edge | $5,540,044 | $4,094,091 | 73.9% | $1,445,953 | 26.1% | 1,125 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Agnes of God | $4,602,018 | $3,572,553 | 77.6% | $1,029,465 | 22.4% | 623 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Back to the Future | $4,175,768 | $3,382,658 | 81% | $793,110 | 19% | 1,350 | 15 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Invasion U.S.A. | $4,025,866 | $3,487,793 | 86.6% | $538,073 | 13.4% | 1,735 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 6 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | $1,494,410 | $1,204,856 | 80.6% | $289,554 | 19.4% | 842 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Teen Wolf | $1,479,289 | $1,057,500 | 71.5% | $421,789 | 28.5% | 940 | 7 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 8 | Plenty | $1,004,007 | $764,606 | 76.2% | $239,401 | 23.8% | 143 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Maxie | $925,145 | $700,021 | 75.7% | $225,124 | 24.3% | 777 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | $909,919 | $649,802 | 71.4% | $260,117 | 28.6% | 143 | 11 | Island Alive | - | false |
| 11 | The Journey of Natty Gann | $711,496 | $639,395 | 89.9% | $72,101 | 10.1% | 205 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Cocoon | $616,695 | $616,695 | 100% | $0 | - | 614 | 16 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | After Hours | $555,633 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | Sweet Dreams | $174,240 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Dreamchild | $9,041 | $5,425 | 60% | $3,616 | 40% | 1 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Creator | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Code Name: Emerald | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Compromising Positions | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Better Off Dead | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
