| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Fatal Attraction | $9,663,303 | $7,089,680 | 73.4% | $2,573,623 | 26.6% | 1,351 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Hello Again | $7,366,161 | $5,712,892 | 77.6% | $1,653,269 | 22.4% | 1,201 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Less Than Zero | $4,067,407 | $3,008,987 | 74% | $1,058,420 | 26% | 871 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | Baby Boom | $3,999,763 | $3,052,491 | 76.3% | $947,272 | 23.7% | 874 | 5 | United Artists | - | false |
| 5 | Death Wish 4: The Crackdown | $3,340,296 | $2,466,557 | 73.8% | $873,739 | 26.2% | 1,030 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 6 | Suspect | $3,217,847 | $2,617,847 | 81.4% | $600,000 | 18.6% | 1,029 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Fatal Beauty | $3,087,409 | $2,325,709 | 75.3% | $761,700 | 24.7% | 1,108 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | The Hidden | $2,745,455 | $2,242,118 | 81.7% | $503,337 | 18.3% | 949 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 9 | Hiding Out | $2,710,530 | $2,062,120 | 76.1% | $648,410 | 23.9% | 988 | 1 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 10 | The Princess Bride | $2,622,159 | $1,914,379 | 73% | $707,780 | 27% | 693 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Like Father Like Son | $2,449,410 | $2,099,410 | 85.7% | $350,000 | 14.3% | 1,162 | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Dirty Dancing | $2,406,593 | $1,704,920 | 70.8% | $701,673 | 29.2% | 878 | 12 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Made in Heaven | $2,213,853 | $1,678,154 | 75.8% | $535,699 | 24.2% | 898 | 1 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Prince of Darkness | $2,133,895 | $1,600,090 | 75% | $533,805 | 25% | 970 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Russkies | $1,353,722 | $1,030,101 | 76.1% | $323,621 | 23.9% | 604 | 1 | New Century | - | false |
| 16 | Cry Freedom | $453,559 | $318,723 | 70.3% | $134,836 | 29.7% | 27 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Steel Dawn | $430,239 | $311,892 | 72.5% | $118,347 | 27.5% | 290 | 1 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| - | Weeds | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| - | Stakeout | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Sicilian | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Someone to Watch Over Me | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
