| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Lethal Weapon | $9,920,971 | $7,104,415 | 71.6% | $2,816,556 | 28.4% | 1,256 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Platoon | $6,458,531 | $4,664,176 | 72.2% | $1,794,355 | 27.8% | 1,556 | 13 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | $6,365,567 | $5,032,897 | 79.1% | $1,332,670 | 20.9% | 1,365 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 4 | Tin Men | $5,332,191 | $4,006,579 | 75.1% | $1,325,612 | 24.9% | 684 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Angel Heart | $3,619,654 | $2,729,654 | 75.4% | $890,000 | 24.6% | 819 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Some Kind of Wonderful | $3,468,561 | $2,618,151 | 75.5% | $850,410 | 24.5% | 1,082 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Outrageous Fortune | $3,394,879 | $2,570,442 | 75.7% | $824,437 | 24.3% | 1,139 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Mannequin | $3,314,105 | $2,534,246 | 76.5% | $779,859 | 23.5% | 931 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Hoosiers | $3,281,830 | $2,443,955 | 74.5% | $837,875 | 25.5% | 1,043 | 18 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Witchboard | $2,957,701 | $2,582,408 | 87.3% | $375,293 | 12.7% | 1,068 | 12 | Palisades Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Heat | $1,867,358 | $1,354,375 | 72.5% | $512,983 | 27.5% | 863 | 1 | New Century | - | false |
| 12 | Crocodile Dundee | $1,845,908 | $1,266,366 | 68.6% | $579,542 | 31.4% | 876 | 25 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Black Widow | $1,470,069 | $1,082,405 | 73.6% | $387,664 | 26.4% | 632 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Evil Dead II | $1,004,143 | $807,260 | 80.4% | $196,883 | 19.6% | 310 | 1 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 15 | Raising Arizona | $68,742 | $36,240 | 52.7% | $32,502 | 47.3% | 1 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 16 | Swimming to Cambodia | $23,976 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Over the Top | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Radio Days | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
