| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | $11,367,889 | $8,880,555 | 78.1% | $2,487,334 | 21.9% | 1,343 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Platoon | $9,710,291 | $7,153,244 | 73.7% | $2,557,047 | 26.3% | 1,466 | 11 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Outrageous Fortune | $5,082,733 | $4,409,083 | 86.8% | $673,650 | 13.2% | 1,316 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Mannequin | $4,981,953 | $4,095,599 | 82.2% | $886,354 | 17.8% | 975 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Some Kind of Wonderful | $4,383,913 | $3,486,701 | 79.5% | $897,212 | 20.5% | 1,082 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Black Widow | $3,197,444 | $2,488,466 | 77.8% | $708,978 | 22.2% | 742 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Over the Top | $2,685,336 | $2,178,484 | 81.1% | $506,852 | 18.9% | 1,605 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Crocodile Dundee | $2,258,973 | $1,747,675 | 77.4% | $511,298 | 22.6% | 1,050 | 23 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Radio Days | $1,685,611 | $1,317,628 | 78.2% | $367,983 | 21.8% | 488 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Death Before Dishonor | $1,149,085 | $855,186 | 74.4% | $293,899 | 25.6% | 717 | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Light of Day | $833,225 | $653,225 | 78.4% | $180,000 | 21.6% | 725 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Morgan Stewart's Coming Home | $443,584 | $367,019 | 82.7% | $76,565 | 17.3% | 185 | 2 | New Century | - | false |
| 13 | Beyond Therapy | $370,307 | $286,840 | 77.5% | $83,467 | 22.5% | 113 | 1 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Hoosiers | - | $3,653,562 | - | - | - | 1,039 | 16 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | A Room with a View | - | - | - | - | - | 150 | 52 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Stepfather | - | - | - | - | - | 148 | 6 | New Century | - | false |
| - | The Golden Child | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Number One with a Bullet | - | $210,761 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Betty Blue | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | Alive Films | - | false |
| - | From the Hip | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
