| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Critical Condition | $7,331,845 | $5,715,701 | 78% | $1,616,144 | 22% | 1,343 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Platoon | $5,550,457 | $3,730,715 | 67.2% | $1,819,742 | 32.8% | 174 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | $5,221,844 | $4,056,512 | 77.7% | $1,165,332 | 22.3% | 1,479 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Golden Child | $5,030,854 | $3,921,103 | 77.9% | $1,109,751 | 22.1% | 1,565 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Crocodile Dundee | $4,658,159 | $3,580,010 | 76.8% | $1,078,149 | 23.2% | 1,315 | 17 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Little Shop of Horrors | $4,157,468 | $3,222,066 | 77.5% | $935,402 | 22.5% | 1,183 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | The Bedroom Window | $3,869,097 | $2,919,657 | 75.5% | $949,440 | 24.5% | 930 | 1 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 8 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | $3,736,398 | $2,845,836 | 76.2% | $890,562 | 23.8% | 1,017 | 1 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Morning After | $2,525,565 | $1,972,870 | 78.1% | $552,695 | 21.9% | 908 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | The Mission | $2,007,430 | $1,468,686 | 73.2% | $538,744 | 26.8% | 393 | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Crimes of the Heart | $1,962,479 | $1,518,464 | 77.4% | $444,015 | 22.6% | 538 | 6 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 12 | Lady and the Tramp 1986 Re-release | $1,766,530 | $1,263,202 | 71.5% | $503,328 | 28.5% | 1,171 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Three Amigos! | $1,766,060 | $1,412,077 | 80% | $353,983 | 20% | 1,116 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Assassination | $1,569,987 | $1,143,966 | 72.9% | $426,021 | 27.1% | 992 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 15 | An American Tail | $1,421,630 | $1,010,470 | 71.1% | $411,160 | 28.9% | 969 | 9 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Heartbreak Ridge | $1,411,700 | $1,040,729 | 73.7% | $370,971 | 26.3% | 958 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 17 | The Color Purple 1987 Re-release | $1,157,607 | $816,269 | 70.5% | $341,338 | 29.5% | 601 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Mosquito Coast | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | No Mercy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Blood Simple | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Circle Films | - | false |
| - | Wisdom | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Brighton Beach Memoirs | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Here Come the Littles | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
