| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Good Morning, Vietnam | $16,717,482 | $11,752,913 | 70.3% | $4,964,569 | 29.7% | 785 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Three Men and a Baby | $10,560,765 | $7,973,618 | 75.5% | $2,587,147 | 24.5% | 1,813 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Moonstruck | $7,229,499 | $5,069,508 | 70.1% | $2,159,991 | 29.9% | 635 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | For Keeps? | $6,063,799 | $4,839,790 | 79.8% | $1,224,009 | 20.2% | 922 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Broadcast News | $4,663,788 | $3,551,046 | 76.1% | $1,112,742 | 23.9% | 748 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | Return of the Living Dead II | $4,576,674 | $3,647,254 | 79.7% | $929,420 | 20.3% | 1,467 | 1 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Couch Trip | $4,505,888 | $3,351,891 | 74.4% | $1,153,997 | 25.6% | 1,332 | 1 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Throw Momma from the Train | $3,741,870 | $2,814,646 | 75.2% | $927,224 | 24.8% | 1,535 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Eddie Murphy: Raw | $3,676,330 | $2,758,795 | 75% | $917,535 | 25% | 1,221 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Wall Street | $2,820,892 | $2,103,544 | 74.6% | $717,348 | 25.4% | 967 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Fatal Attraction | $2,784,799 | $2,048,816 | 73.6% | $735,983 | 26.4% | 1,054 | 18 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | *batteries not included | $2,538,575 | $1,854,690 | 73.1% | $683,885 | 26.9% | 1,222 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Overboard | $1,992,348 | $1,485,003 | 74.5% | $507,345 | 25.5% | 996 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 14 | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | $1,869,646 | $1,421,230 | 76% | $448,416 | 24% | 1,081 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Empire of the Sun | $1,459,818 | $1,063,063 | 72.8% | $396,755 | 27.2% | 528 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 16 | The Last Emperor | $940,902 | $677,383 | 72% | $263,519 | 28% | 91 | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Rent-a-Cop | $295,000 | $295,000 | 100% | $0 | - | 193 | 1 | Kings Road Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Dirty Dancing | - | - | - | - | - | - | 22 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| - | Heathcliff: The Movie | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | Nuts | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
