| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Money Pit | $4,421,465 | $3,646,200 | 82.5% | $775,265 | 17.5% | 1,180 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Police Academy 3: Back in Training | $4,352,586 | $3,469,858 | 79.7% | $882,728 | 20.3% | 1,715 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Band of the Hand | $3,060,720 | $2,235,720 | 73% | $825,000 | 27% | 930 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Gung Ho | $2,604,227 | $2,033,821 | 78.1% | $570,406 | 21.9% | 1,090 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Off Beat | $2,506,690 | $2,011,192 | 80.2% | $495,498 | 19.8% | 1,127 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Critters | $2,357,221 | $1,618,800 | 68.7% | $738,421 | 31.3% | 540 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 7 | The Color Purple | $2,139,463 | $1,527,233 | 71.4% | $612,230 | 28.6% | 956 | 17 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | April Fool's Day | $2,012,445 | $1,606,740 | 79.8% | $405,705 | 20.2% | 1,136 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Pretty in Pink | $1,916,295 | $1,482,837 | 77.4% | $433,458 | 22.6% | 1,013 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Out of Africa | $1,766,335 | $1,314,300 | 74.4% | $452,035 | 25.6% | 780 | 17 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Hannah and Her Sisters | $1,565,926 | $1,172,253 | 74.9% | $393,673 | 25.1% | 581 | 10 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | $1,541,931 | $1,183,294 | 76.7% | $358,637 | 23.3% | 807 | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Sleeping Beauty 1986 Re-release | $1,340,446 | $1,036,610 | 77.3% | $303,836 | 22.7% | 936 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Lucas | $1,251,497 | $1,001,373 | 80% | $250,124 | 20% | 463 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | Violets Are Blue... | $336,019 | $256,581 | 76.4% | $79,438 | 23.6% | 22 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Phar Lap | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | P.O.W. the Escape | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
