| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Color Purple | $8,515,181 | $5,742,903 | 67.4% | $2,772,278 | 32.6% | 561 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Iron Eagle | $7,904,245 | $6,104,754 | 77.2% | $1,799,491 | 22.8% | 1,080 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Out of Africa | $6,919,384 | $5,191,875 | 75% | $1,727,509 | 25% | 923 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Jewel of the Nile | $5,222,394 | $4,041,993 | 77.4% | $1,180,401 | 22.6% | 1,433 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Rocky IV | $4,961,543 | $3,810,001 | 76.8% | $1,151,542 | 23.2% | 1,756 | 9 | United Artists | - | false |
| 6 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | $4,231,850 | $3,331,850 | 78.7% | $900,000 | 21.3% | 614 | 12 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 7 | Spies Like Us | $3,695,850 | $2,894,448 | 78.3% | $801,402 | 21.7% | 1,410 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Troll | $3,414,040 | $2,595,054 | 76% | $818,986 | 24% | 959 | 1 | Empire Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Runaway Train | $3,275,079 | $2,601,480 | 79.4% | $673,599 | 20.6% | 965 | 7 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 10 | White Nights | $3,083,594 | $2,345,831 | 76.1% | $737,763 | 23.9% | 1,007 | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Black Moon Rising | $1,772,217 | $1,573,217 | 88.8% | $199,000 | 11.2% | 817 | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Back to the Future | $1,694,875 | $1,287,600 | 76% | $407,275 | 24% | 580 | 30 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Hey There, It's Yogi Bear | $556,807 | $414,552 | 74.4% | $142,255 | 25.6% | 276 | 1 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 14 | The Adventures of the American Rabbit | $384,003 | $291,126 | 75.8% | $92,877 | 24.2% | 242 | 1 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 15 | The Adventures of Mark Twain | $296,118 | $226,525 | 76.5% | $69,593 | 23.5% | 221 | 1 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 16 | The Boy in Blue | $134,658 | $94,261 | 70% | $40,397 | 30% | 44 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 17 | The Clan of the Cave Bear | $36,690 | $25,428 | 69.3% | $11,262 | 30.7% | 1 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1985 Re-release | - | $1,896,929 | - | - | - | 1,039 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Clue | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | A Chorus Line | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Enemy Mine | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Young Sherlock Holmes | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
