| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Jewel of the Nile | $10,075,111 | $6,645,455 | 66% | $3,429,656 | 34% | 1,106 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Rocky IV | $9,341,853 | $7,208,991 | 77.2% | $2,132,862 | 22.8% | 1,333 | 4 | United Artists | - | false |
| 3 | Spies Like Us | $7,125,749 | $5,485,248 | 77% | $1,640,501 | 23% | 1,556 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | White Nights | $4,342,117 | $3,138,677 | 72.3% | $1,203,440 | 27.7% | 889 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Santa Claus | $3,545,696 | $2,722,804 | 76.8% | $822,892 | 23.2% | 1,316 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Clue | $2,663,308 | $2,014,166 | 75.6% | $649,142 | 24.4% | 1,006 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Young Sherlock Holmes | $2,149,263 | $1,577,269 | 73.4% | $571,994 | 26.6% | 924 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | One Magic Christmas | $1,477,352 | $1,106,876 | 74.9% | $370,476 | 25.1% | 827 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Back to the Future | $930,972 | $700,232 | 75.2% | $230,740 | 24.8% | 724 | 25 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | King Solomon's Mines | $889,764 | $739,764 | 83.1% | $150,000 | 16.9% | 854 | 4 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 11 | Jagged Edge | $732,895 | $521,620 | 71.2% | $211,275 | 28.8% | 712 | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | To Live and Die in L.A. | $463,705 | $309,584 | 66.8% | $154,121 | 33.2% | 548 | 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 13 | A Chorus Line | $395,263 | $222,919 | 56.4% | $172,344 | 43.6% | 19 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Trouble in Mind | $16,029 | $16,029 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 2 | Alive Films | - | false |
| 15 | Brazil | $7,494 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
