| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Rocky IV | $15,492,915 | $8,445,197 | 54.5% | $7,047,718 | 45.5% | 2,232 | 5 | United Artists | - | false |
| 2 | The Jewel of the Nile | $9,506,264 | $4,703,895 | 49.5% | $4,802,369 | 50.5% | 1,106 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Spies Like Us | $8,482,268 | $4,258,082 | 50.2% | $4,224,186 | 49.8% | 1,700 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Out of Africa | $7,657,974 | $3,637,290 | 47.5% | $4,020,684 | 52.5% | 922 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Santa Claus | $5,900,061 | $3,246,211 | 55% | $2,653,850 | 45% | 1,585 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | White Nights | $5,702,557 | $2,757,227 | 48.4% | $2,945,330 | 51.6% | 1,047 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1985 Re-release | $5,341,628 | $2,389,226 | 44.7% | $2,952,402 | 55.3% | 1,097 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Color Purple | $3,945,843 | $1,710,333 | 43.4% | $2,235,510 | 56.6% | 192 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | A Chorus Line | $3,117,161 | $1,503,564 | 48.2% | $1,613,597 | 51.8% | 617 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Enemy Mine | $3,023,656 | $1,594,702 | 52.7% | $1,428,954 | 47.3% | 703 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Young Sherlock Holmes | $3,007,219 | $1,439,127 | 47.9% | $1,568,092 | 52.1% | 1,502 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Clue | $2,822,414 | $1,409,154 | 49.9% | $1,413,260 | 50.1% | 1,022 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Back to the Future | $1,812,198 | $905,454 | 50% | $906,744 | 50% | 870 | 26 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Brazil | $79,424 | $30,099 | 37.9% | $49,325 | 62.1% | 1 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Revolution | $33,796 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Trip to Bountiful | - | $8,387 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Island Pictures | - | false |
| - | One Magic Christmas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | King Solomon's Mines | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Jagged Edge | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | To Live and Die in L.A. | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
