| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Blind Date | $9,321,273 | $7,531,273 | 80.8% | $1,790,000 | 19.2% | 1,251 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Lethal Weapon | $6,667,461 | $5,048,404 | 75.7% | $1,619,057 | 24.3% | 1,420 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Platoon | $6,250,349 | $3,944,114 | 63.1% | $2,306,235 | 36.9% | 1,560 | 15 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Tin Men | $3,754,762 | $3,007,543 | 80.1% | $747,219 | 19.9% | 798 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Burglar | $3,726,435 | $2,878,103 | 77.2% | $848,332 | 22.8% | 1,019 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | $3,323,899 | $2,535,046 | 76.3% | $788,853 | 23.7% | 1,342 | 5 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 7 | Hoosiers | $2,363,408 | $1,743,278 | 73.8% | $620,130 | 26.2% | 1,007 | 20 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Mannequin | $2,179,414 | $1,674,269 | 76.8% | $505,145 | 23.2% | 933 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Outrageous Fortune | $1,900,157 | $1,490,436 | 78.4% | $409,721 | 21.6% | 956 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Angel Heart | $1,746,064 | $1,371,064 | 78.5% | $375,000 | 21.5% | 753 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Crocodile Dundee | $1,611,753 | $1,151,751 | 71.5% | $460,002 | 28.5% | 830 | 27 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Some Kind of Wonderful | $1,449,633 | $1,125,153 | 77.6% | $324,480 | 22.4% | 934 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Raising Arizona | $1,391,712 | $1,095,252 | 78.7% | $296,460 | 21.3% | 149 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Children of a Lesser God | $630,612 | $373,583 | 59.2% | $257,029 | 40.8% | 274 | 26 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | A Room with a View | $406,549 | $243,290 | 59.8% | $163,259 | 40.2% | 117 | 56 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Evil Dead II | $320,172 | $247,368 | 77.3% | $72,804 | 22.7% | 150 | 3 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 17 | The Mission | $319,109 | $270,227 | 84.7% | $48,882 | 15.3% | 218 | 22 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | The Hanoi Hilton | $25,558 | $17,784 | 69.6% | $7,774 | 30.4% | 2 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Morgan Stewart's Coming Home | - | $428,102 | - | - | - | 344 | 6 | New Century | - | false |
| - | Hannah and Her Sisters 1987 Re-release | - | $176,001 | - | - | - | 140 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Almost You | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Marlene | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | Alive Films | - | false |
| - | Street Smart | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Black Widow | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Return to Horror High | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Witchboard | - | $759,808 | - | - | - | - | 14 | Palisades Pictures | - | false |
