| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Police Academy 3: Back in Training | $6,284,383 | $5,089,751 | 81% | $1,194,632 | 19% | 1,770 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | The Money Pit | $6,094,945 | $5,052,355 | 82.9% | $1,042,590 | 17.1% | 1,193 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Gung Ho | $3,613,803 | $2,902,069 | 80.3% | $711,734 | 19.7% | 1,150 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | April Fool's Day | $3,064,635 | $2,460,907 | 80.3% | $603,728 | 19.7% | 1,202 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Color Purple | $2,879,604 | $2,158,733 | 75% | $720,871 | 25% | 1,014 | 16 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | Pretty in Pink | $2,445,120 | $1,945,979 | 79.6% | $499,141 | 20.4% | 1,078 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Out of Africa | $2,400,327 | $1,884,432 | 78.5% | $515,895 | 21.5% | 913 | 16 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Sleeping Beauty 1986 Re-release | $2,338,173 | $1,869,345 | 80% | $468,828 | 20% | 1,042 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Hannah and Her Sisters | $2,063,745 | $1,579,090 | 76.5% | $484,655 | 23.5% | 706 | 9 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | $2,028,103 | $1,573,501 | 77.6% | $454,602 | 22.4% | 891 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Lucas | $1,715,222 | $1,382,075 | 80.6% | $333,147 | 19.4% | 629 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | P.O.W. the Escape | $1,375,166 | $1,100,691 | 80% | $274,475 | 20% | 476 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 13 | Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation | $1,317,692 | $1,157,714 | 87.9% | $159,978 | 12.1% | 1,233 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Ginger & Fred | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | The Stone Boy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
