| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Color Purple | $6,063,391 | $4,412,456 | 72.8% | $1,650,935 | 27.2% | 561 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Iron Eagle | $4,857,882 | $3,850,064 | 79.2% | $1,007,818 | 20.8% | 1,084 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Out of Africa | $4,351,430 | $3,197,040 | 73.5% | $1,154,390 | 26.5% | 924 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Jewel of the Nile | $3,425,633 | $2,675,355 | 78.1% | $750,278 | 21.9% | 1,389 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Rocky IV | $2,939,067 | $2,301,989 | 78.3% | $637,078 | 21.7% | 1,575 | 10 | United Artists | - | false |
| 6 | Runaway Train | $2,220,930 | $1,735,373 | 78.1% | $485,557 | 21.9% | 950 | 8 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 7 | Spies Like Us | $2,120,738 | $1,709,353 | 80.6% | $411,385 | 19.4% | 1,239 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Troll | $2,036,775 | $1,128,306 | 55.4% | $908,469 | 44.6% | 907 | 2 | Empire Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | White Nights | $1,946,492 | $1,556,858 | 80% | $389,634 | 20% | 1,029 | 10 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | $1,924,678 | $1,580,036 | 82.1% | $344,642 | 17.9% | 563 | 13 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 11 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1985 Re-release | $1,553,762 | $1,274,171 | 82% | $279,591 | 18% | 1,129 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Back to the Future | $1,120,979 | $885,194 | 79% | $235,785 | 21% | 601 | 31 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Twice in a Lifetime | - | $1,311,000 | - | - | - | 436 | 14 | Bud Yorkin Productions | - | false |
| - | Fool for Love | - | - | - | - | - | 57 | 8 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Revolution | - | - | - | - | - | 30 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Adventures of Mark Twain | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | The Adventures of the American Rabbit | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | Those Glory Glory Days | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Black Moon Rising | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Entre Nous | - | - | - | - | - | - | 106 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | The Boy in Blue | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
