| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Gung Ho | $9,048,283 | $7,170,830 | 79.2% | $1,877,453 | 20.8% | 1,150 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Pretty in Pink | $5,207,002 | $4,166,088 | 80% | $1,040,914 | 20% | 1,117 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Color Purple | $4,100,478 | $3,006,827 | 73.3% | $1,093,651 | 26.7% | 1,107 | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | $3,697,416 | $2,848,902 | 77% | $848,514 | 23% | 1,078 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Hannah and Her Sisters | $3,570,028 | $2,707,966 | 75.8% | $862,062 | 24.2% | 696 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Crossroads | $2,751,810 | $2,071,680 | 75.3% | $680,130 | 24.7% | 982 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | House | $2,642,035 | $2,204,280 | 83.4% | $437,755 | 16.6% | 1,340 | 3 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Wildcats | $2,287,409 | $1,778,971 | 77.8% | $508,438 | 22.2% | 1,007 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Murphy's Romance | $1,858,379 | $1,421,863 | 76.5% | $436,516 | 23.5% | 875 | 12 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Out of Africa | $1,849,105 | $1,360,825 | 73.6% | $488,280 | 26.4% | 720 | 13 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Highlander | $1,764,769 | $1,273,196 | 72.2% | $491,573 | 27.8% | 1,036 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | F/X | $1,273,411 | $939,053 | 73.7% | $334,358 | 26.3% | 669 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Back to the Future | $648,355 | $498,815 | 76.9% | $149,540 | 23.1% | 336 | 38 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Kiss of the Spider Woman | - | - | - | - | - | 131 | 34 | Island Alive | - | false |
| - | Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Nomads | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | Sleeping Beauty 1986 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Delta Force | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
