| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | $21,583,856 | $16,881,888 | 78.2% | $4,701,968 | 21.8% | 1,349 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Crocodile Dundee | $8,676,646 | $7,266,867 | 83.8% | $1,409,779 | 16.2% | 1,495 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | An American Tail | $8,676,426 | $7,412,815 | 85.4% | $1,263,611 | 14.6% | 1,249 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Song of the South 1986 Re-release | $5,947,956 | $5,205,175 | 87.5% | $742,781 | 12.5% | 1,529 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Color of Money | $3,761,986 | $3,204,806 | 85.2% | $557,180 | 14.8% | 1,170 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Firewalker | $3,549,117 | $2,935,614 | 82.7% | $613,503 | 17.3% | 1,120 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 7 | Peggy Sue Got Married | $2,991,320 | $2,643,640 | 88.4% | $347,680 | 11.6% | 1,058 | 8 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Soul Man | $2,847,288 | $2,438,768 | 85.6% | $408,520 | 14.4% | 1,220 | 6 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Stand by Me | $1,587,299 | $1,430,279 | 90.1% | $157,020 | 9.9% | 716 | 17 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Top Gun | $1,495,002 | $1,230,908 | 82.3% | $264,094 | 17.7% | 741 | 29 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Children of a Lesser God | $1,429,429 | $1,166,301 | 81.6% | $263,128 | 18.4% | 501 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Wraith | $975,113 | $777,395 | 79.7% | $197,718 | 20.3% | 554 | 2 | New Century | - | false |
| 13 | Solarbabies | $875,482 | $704,692 | 80.5% | $170,790 | 19.5% | 692 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 14 | Something Wild | $864,111 | $681,304 | 78.8% | $182,807 | 21.2% | 462 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Jumpin' Jack Flash | $809,891 | $809,891 | 100% | $0 | - | 675 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 16 | Hoosiers | $333,867 | $274,830 | 82.3% | $59,037 | 17.7% | 74 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | The Mission | $301,977 | $241,400 | 79.9% | $60,577 | 20.1% | 11 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | The Name of the Rose | $232,628 | $232,628 | 100% | $0 | - | 108 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 19 | The Mosquito Coast | $159,987 | $110,313 | 69% | $49,674 | 31% | 3 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Gospel According to Vic | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 7 | Skouras Pictures | - | false |
| - | Blue Velvet | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| - | Deadtime Stories | - | $708,112 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Palisades Pictures | - | false |
| - | Nutcracker | - | $351,633 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
