| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Legend | $3,435,401 | $2,591,751 | 75.4% | $843,650 | 24.6% | 1,179 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Money Pit | $2,895,590 | $2,352,975 | 81.3% | $542,615 | 18.7% | 1,145 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Murphy's Law | $2,773,458 | $2,136,026 | 77% | $637,432 | 23% | 1,260 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 4 | Police Academy 3: Back in Training | $2,308,673 | $1,821,577 | 78.9% | $487,096 | 21.1% | 1,360 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Violets Are Blue... | $1,879,351 | $1,411,575 | 75.1% | $467,776 | 24.9% | 654 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Gung Ho | $1,697,473 | $1,318,564 | 77.7% | $378,909 | 22.3% | 907 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Critters | $1,565,088 | $1,213,686 | 77.6% | $351,402 | 22.4% | 540 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 8 | Wise Guys | $1,519,147 | $1,191,815 | 78.4% | $327,332 | 21.6% | 335 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 9 | Pretty in Pink | $1,470,267 | $1,122,932 | 76.4% | $347,335 | 23.6% | 908 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Color Purple | $1,461,323 | $1,011,530 | 69.2% | $449,793 | 30.8% | 871 | 19 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Hannah and Her Sisters | $1,132,133 | $835,025 | 73.8% | $297,108 | 26.2% | 471 | 12 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Three Men and a Cradle | $39,594 | $25,380 | 64.1% | $14,214 | 35.9% | 1 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 13 | Crimewave | $5,101 | $3,571 | 70% | $1,530 | 30% | 7 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | - | $835,824 | - | - | - | 726 | 13 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Hollywood Vice Squad | - | - | - | - | - | 70 | 9 | Concorde Pictures | - | false |
| - | Water | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | Off Beat | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Band of the Hand | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Love Letters | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | 8 Million Ways to Die | - | $609,955 | - | - | - | - | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
