| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol | $10,248,472 | $8,482,487 | 82.8% | $1,765,985 | 17.2% | 1,750 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Blind Date | $6,828,421 | $5,728,421 | 83.9% | $1,100,000 | 16.1% | 1,251 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Platoon | $6,265,680 | $4,737,808 | 75.6% | $1,527,872 | 24.4% | 1,564 | 16 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Lethal Weapon | $5,339,258 | $4,074,088 | 76.3% | $1,265,170 | 23.7% | 1,408 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Tin Men | $2,965,108 | $2,401,369 | 81% | $563,739 | 19% | 796 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | $2,586,455 | $1,946,310 | 75.2% | $640,145 | 24.8% | 1,196 | 6 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 7 | Burglar | $2,552,533 | $2,001,965 | 78.4% | $550,568 | 21.6% | 986 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Hoosiers | $1,982,087 | $1,583,202 | 79.9% | $398,885 | 20.1% | 995 | 21 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Mannequin | $1,696,507 | $1,348,296 | 79.5% | $348,211 | 20.5% | 920 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Outrageous Fortune | $1,498,614 | $1,209,436 | 80.7% | $289,178 | 19.3% | 839 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Crocodile Dundee | $1,471,698 | $1,143,850 | 77.7% | $327,848 | 22.3% | 773 | 28 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Angel Heart | $1,451,694 | $1,151,694 | 79.3% | $300,000 | 20.7% | 646 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Raising Arizona | $1,205,769 | $953,647 | 79.1% | $252,122 | 20.9% | 150 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Return to Horror High | $169,879 | $130,807 | 77% | $39,072 | 23% | 104 | 13 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Evil Dead II | $90,175 | $65,554 | 72.7% | $24,621 | 27.3% | 23 | 4 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| - | Children of a Lesser God | - | - | - | - | - | - | 27 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Morgan Stewart's Coming Home | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | New Century | - | false |
| - | Hannah and Her Sisters 1987 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | A Room with a View | - | - | - | - | - | - | 57 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Some Kind of Wonderful | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Mission | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Hanoi Hilton | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
