| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | $11,406,557 | $8,833,818 | 77.4% | $2,572,739 | 22.6% | 1,349 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Heartbreak Ridge | $11,007,160 | $8,100,840 | 73.6% | $2,906,320 | 26.4% | 1,470 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Crocodile Dundee | $4,905,002 | $3,803,625 | 77.6% | $1,101,377 | 22.4% | 1,487 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | An American Tail | $4,841,034 | $4,019,890 | 83% | $821,144 | 17% | 1,249 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Song of the South 1986 Re-release | $2,433,031 | $2,002,800 | 82.3% | $430,231 | 17.7% | 1,488 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Color of Money | $1,848,207 | $1,503,724 | 81.4% | $344,483 | 18.6% | 1,104 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Soul Man | $1,510,280 | $1,222,927 | 81% | $287,353 | 19% | 1,184 | 7 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Firewalker | $1,503,345 | $1,246,474 | 82.9% | $256,871 | 17.1% | 1,115 | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 9 | Peggy Sue Got Married | $1,443,130 | $1,401,130 | 97.1% | $42,000 | 2.9% | 1,008 | 9 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Stand by Me | $1,026,276 | $847,517 | 82.6% | $178,759 | 17.4% | 718 | 18 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Top Gun | $880,384 | $668,089 | 75.9% | $212,295 | 24.1% | 698 | 30 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Children of a Lesser God | $848,380 | $647,654 | 76.3% | $200,726 | 23.7% | 464 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Solarbabies | $195,036 | $138,714 | 71.1% | $56,322 | 28.9% | 375 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 14 | The Mission | $193,888 | $147,322 | 76% | $46,566 | 24% | 11 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Hoosiers | $151,779 | $116,972 | 77.1% | $34,807 | 22.9% | 74 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Mosquito Coast | $121,449 | $83,922 | 69.1% | $37,527 | 30.9% | 3 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Gospel According to Vic | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Skouras Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Wraith | - | $217,379 | - | - | - | - | 3 | New Century | - | false |
| - | Jumpin' Jack Flash | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The Name of the Rose | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Something Wild | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
