| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Lethal Weapon | $8,800,340 | $6,289,750 | 71.5% | $2,510,590 | 28.5% | 1,420 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Burglar | $5,956,100 | $4,509,754 | 75.7% | $1,446,346 | 24.3% | 1,019 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Platoon | $5,509,433 | $3,828,038 | 69.5% | $1,681,395 | 30.5% | 1,554 | 14 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Tin Men | $4,616,547 | $3,501,365 | 75.8% | $1,115,182 | 24.2% | 703 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | $4,581,062 | $3,612,733 | 78.9% | $968,329 | 21.1% | 1,383 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 6 | Hoosiers | $2,850,246 | $2,062,348 | 72.4% | $787,898 | 27.6% | 1,038 | 19 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Angel Heart | $2,839,744 | $2,089,944 | 73.6% | $749,800 | 26.4% | 815 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Mannequin | $2,829,368 | $2,166,174 | 76.6% | $663,194 | 23.4% | 959 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Outrageous Fortune | $2,708,090 | $2,037,085 | 75.2% | $671,005 | 24.8% | 1,082 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Some Kind of Wonderful | $2,492,056 | $1,894,625 | 76% | $597,431 | 24% | 1,060 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Witchboard | $1,957,647 | $1,674,623 | 85.5% | $283,024 | 14.5% | 1,005 | 13 | Palisades Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Crocodile Dundee | $1,716,465 | $1,239,185 | 72.2% | $477,280 | 27.8% | 857 | 26 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Black Widow | $1,111,343 | $792,199 | 71.3% | $319,144 | 28.7% | 626 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Evil Dead II | $616,271 | $483,301 | 78.4% | $132,970 | 21.6% | 280 | 2 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 15 | Raising Arizona | $541,467 | $357,089 | 66% | $184,378 | 34% | 21 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 16 | Street Smart | $443,060 | $325,835 | 73.5% | $117,225 | 26.5% | 207 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 17 | Hollywood Shuffle | $141,347 | $95,667 | 67.7% | $45,680 | 32.3% | 15 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | The Mission | - | - | - | - | - | 206 | 21 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Children of a Lesser God | - | - | - | - | - | 186 | 25 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | A Room with a View | - | $158,470 | - | - | - | 127 | 55 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Marlene | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 20 | Alive Films | - | false |
| - | Heat | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | New Century | - | false |
| - | He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
