| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Platoon | $5,278,138 | $3,290,933 | 62.4% | $1,987,205 | 37.6% | 214 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Critical Condition | $4,398,314 | $3,335,808 | 75.8% | $1,062,506 | 24.2% | 1,343 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Crocodile Dundee | $3,554,415 | $2,567,070 | 72.2% | $987,345 | 27.8% | 1,347 | 18 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | $3,409,990 | $2,580,494 | 75.7% | $829,496 | 24.3% | 1,385 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Golden Child | $3,340,396 | $2,549,400 | 76.3% | $790,996 | 23.7% | 1,451 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Bedroom Window | $3,097,449 | $2,267,736 | 73.2% | $829,713 | 26.8% | 934 | 2 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 7 | Little Shop of Horrors | $2,690,745 | $2,093,847 | 77.8% | $596,898 | 22.2% | 1,178 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | $1,937,113 | $1,368,391 | 70.6% | $568,722 | 29.4% | 1,032 | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Crimes of the Heart | $1,747,095 | $1,260,195 | 72.1% | $486,900 | 27.9% | 685 | 7 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 10 | The Morning After | $1,665,984 | $1,228,038 | 73.7% | $437,946 | 26.3% | 890 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | The Mission | $1,611,227 | $1,172,906 | 72.8% | $438,321 | 27.2% | 390 | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | Three Amigos! | $1,344,865 | $1,002,523 | 74.5% | $342,342 | 25.5% | 1,111 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Stepfather | $359,213 | $260,587 | 72.5% | $98,626 | 27.5% | 105 | 1 | New Century | - | false |
| - | Sid and Nancy | - | - | - | - | - | 43 | 15 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | The Kindred | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | FM Entertainment | - | false |
| - | An American Tail | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Color Purple 1987 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Assassination | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Heartbreak Ridge | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Lady and the Tramp 1986 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Sweet Country | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Palisades Pictures | - | false |
