| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Crocodile Dundee | $10,942,201 | $8,207,503 | 75% | $2,734,698 | 25% | 971 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Tough Guys | $5,902,796 | $4,565,342 | 77.3% | $1,337,454 | 22.7% | 856 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Top Gun | $3,114,028 | $2,405,090 | 77.2% | $708,938 | 22.8% | 1,334 | 21 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Stand by Me | $2,913,184 | $2,396,982 | 82.3% | $516,202 | 17.7% | 848 | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Children of a Lesser God | $2,578,672 | $1,909,084 | 74% | $669,588 | 26% | 215 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Playing for Keeps | $1,690,060 | $1,406,300 | 83.2% | $283,760 | 16.8% | 1,148 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Karate Kid Part II | $1,404,588 | $1,157,805 | 82.4% | $246,783 | 17.6% | 1,133 | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Boy Who Could Fly | $1,344,386 | $1,117,389 | 83.1% | $226,997 | 16.9% | 664 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Ruthless People | $1,175,847 | $917,166 | 78% | $258,681 | 22% | 861 | 15 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Fly | $1,057,425 | $812,422 | 76.8% | $245,003 | 23.2% | 815 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Aliens | $989,168 | $744,462 | 75.3% | $244,706 | 24.7% | 769 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | Back to School | $954,154 | $721,046 | 75.6% | $233,108 | 24.4% | 788 | 17 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | $949,618 | $750,865 | 79.1% | $198,753 | 20.9% | 702 | 18 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Blue Velvet | $844,550 | $597,584 | 70.8% | $246,966 | 29.2% | 121 | 3 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 15 | Link | $812,791 | $660,874 | 81.3% | $151,917 | 18.7% | 435 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 16 | The Name of the Rose | $500,770 | $375,276 | 74.9% | $125,494 | 25.1% | 45 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 17 | Shanghai Surprise | $52,160 | $36,948 | 70.8% | $15,212 | 29.2% | 102 | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 18 | 'Round Midnight | $38,644 | $25,384 | 65.7% | $13,260 | 34.3% | 1 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Weekend Warriors | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Moviestore Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Nothing in Common | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Eureka | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | United Artists | - | false |
