| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Crocodile Dundee | $9,418,960 | $5,537,875 | 58.8% | $3,881,085 | 41.2% | 1,495 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | $8,520,478 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | An American Tail | $7,541,323 | $5,234,446 | 69.4% | $2,306,877 | 30.6% | 1,246 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Song of the South 1986 Re-release | $6,100,710 | $4,203,111 | 68.9% | $1,897,599 | 31.1% | 1,505 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Firewalker | $5,741,918 | $4,130,323 | 71.9% | $1,611,595 | 28.1% | 1,120 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 6 | The Color of Money | $4,170,529 | $2,504,759 | 60.1% | $1,665,770 | 39.9% | 1,183 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Soul Man | $3,456,561 | $2,200,993 | 63.7% | $1,255,568 | 36.3% | 1,320 | 5 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Peggy Sue Got Married | $3,313,116 | $2,339,621 | 70.6% | $973,495 | 29.4% | 1,105 | 7 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Wraith | $1,931,689 | $1,402,535 | 72.6% | $529,154 | 27.4% | 588 | 1 | New Century | - | false |
| 10 | Stand by Me | $1,824,351 | $1,154,357 | 63.3% | $669,994 | 36.7% | 738 | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Children of a Lesser God | $1,739,848 | $1,129,214 | 64.9% | $610,634 | 35.1% | 501 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Top Gun | $1,612,070 | $1,017,171 | 63.1% | $594,899 | 36.9% | 747 | 28 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Jumpin' Jack Flash | $1,389,255 | $971,642 | 69.9% | $417,613 | 30.1% | 745 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Something Wild | $1,272,734 | $918,250 | 72.2% | $354,484 | 27.8% | 686 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Name of the Rose | $415,099 | $293,022 | 70.6% | $122,077 | 29.4% | 137 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 16 | Hoosiers | $360,519 | $201,889 | 56% | $158,630 | 44% | 30 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | The Mission | $347,512 | $227,373 | 65.4% | $120,139 | 34.6% | 10 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | Solarbabies | $302,492 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 19 | Blue Velvet | $237,316 | $159,568 | 67.2% | $77,748 | 32.8% | 106 | 10 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 20 | Nutcracker | $100,296 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 21 | The Mosquito Coast | $40,248 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 22 | Defense of the Realm | $27,770 | $19,938 | 71.8% | $7,832 | 28.2% | 4 | 1 | Hemdale | - | false |
| - | Willy/Milly | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Palisades Pictures | - | false |
| - | Tough Guys | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Tai-Pan | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| - | Streets of Gold | - | $621,648 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | 52 Pick-Up | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | 'Round Midnight | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
