| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Running Man | $9,467,484 | $5,671,255 | 59.9% | $3,796,229 | 40.1% | 1,692 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Fatal Attraction | $7,987,282 | $4,926,600 | 61.7% | $3,060,682 | 38.3% | 1,398 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Cinderella 1987 Re-release | $7,408,902 | $5,165,881 | 69.7% | $2,243,021 | 30.3% | 1,646 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Flowers in the Attic | $6,913,940 | $5,020,317 | 72.6% | $1,893,623 | 27.4% | 1,051 | 1 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Nuts | $6,806,297 | $4,606,083 | 67.7% | $2,200,214 | 32.3% | 536 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | Teen Wolf Too | $3,610,918 | $2,709,160 | 75% | $901,758 | 25% | 1,540 | 1 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 7 | Three Men and a Baby | $3,533,653 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Hello Again | $3,469,985 | $2,636,617 | 76% | $833,368 | 24% | 1,202 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | $3,121,760 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Baby Boom | $2,458,169 | $1,696,144 | 69% | $762,025 | 31% | 889 | 7 | United Artists | - | false |
| 11 | Dirty Dancing | $2,338,890 | $1,467,927 | 62.8% | $870,963 | 37.2% | 951 | 14 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Less Than Zero | $1,753,981 | $1,132,177 | 64.6% | $621,804 | 35.4% | 601 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | The Princess Bride | $1,743,243 | $1,164,538 | 66.8% | $578,705 | 33.2% | 786 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Suspect | $1,669,500 | $1,285,500 | 77% | $384,000 | 23% | 857 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Like Father Like Son | $1,315,006 | $1,015,006 | 77.2% | $300,000 | 22.8% | 1,003 | 8 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Sign 'o' the Times | $1,310,265 | $950,116 | 72.5% | $360,149 | 27.5% | 234 | 1 | Cineplex Odeon Films | - | false |
| 17 | Date with an Angel | $1,101,718 | $816,062 | 74.1% | $285,656 | 25.9% | 843 | 1 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 18 | Cry Freedom | $337,642 | $225,311 | 66.7% | $112,331 | 33.3% | 20 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | The Last Emperor | $299,166 | $149,460 | 50% | $149,706 | 50% | 5 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | Housekeeping | $11,089 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | From a Whisper to a Scream | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | Moviestore Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Made in Heaven | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Hiding Out | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| - | Fever Pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | The Hidden | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Cross My Heart | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Death Wish 4: The Crackdown | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Fatal Beauty | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
