| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Good Morning, Vietnam | $14,158,181 | $10,806,276 | 76.3% | $3,351,905 | 23.7% | 1,194 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Three Men and a Baby | $7,479,562 | $6,036,498 | 80.7% | $1,443,064 | 19.3% | 1,813 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Moonstruck | $6,417,032 | $4,801,681 | 74.8% | $1,615,351 | 25.2% | 635 | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | For Keeps? | $3,453,168 | $2,870,168 | 83.1% | $583,000 | 16.9% | 959 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Broadcast News | $3,330,467 | $2,601,659 | 78.1% | $728,808 | 21.9% | 773 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | Braddock: Missing in Action III | $2,889,754 | $2,208,116 | 76.4% | $681,638 | 23.6% | 1,040 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 7 | The Couch Trip | $2,733,146 | $2,089,062 | 76.4% | $644,084 | 23.6% | 1,331 | 2 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Throw Momma from the Train | $2,639,136 | $2,105,624 | 79.8% | $533,512 | 20.2% | 1,440 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Fatal Attraction | $2,292,839 | $1,766,311 | 77% | $526,528 | 23% | 1,021 | 19 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Return of the Living Dead II | $2,275,130 | $1,833,879 | 80.6% | $441,251 | 19.4% | 1,452 | 2 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Eddie Murphy: Raw | $2,252,028 | $1,723,972 | 76.6% | $528,056 | 23.4% | 1,053 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Wall Street | $2,044,827 | $1,543,464 | 75.5% | $501,363 | 24.5% | 883 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | Overboard | $1,505,811 | $1,176,481 | 78.1% | $329,330 | 21.9% | 1,107 | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 14 | *batteries not included | $1,482,810 | $1,218,060 | 82.2% | $264,750 | 17.8% | 1,073 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | $1,211,734 | $919,122 | 75.8% | $292,612 | 24.2% | 898 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Empire of the Sun | $1,000,495 | $770,000 | 77% | $230,495 | 23% | 409 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 17 | The Last Emperor | $949,481 | $678,798 | 71.5% | $270,683 | 28.5% | 108 | 10 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Five Corners | $114,603 | $78,602 | 68.6% | $36,001 | 31.4% | 12 | 1 | Cineplex Odeon Films | - | false |
| 19 | The Telephone | $78,301 | $54,811 | 70% | $23,490 | 30% | 50 | 1 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | Promised Land | $44,105 | $31,401 | 71.2% | $12,704 | 28.8% | 6 | 1 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| 21 | The Family | $15,420 | $10,590 | 68.7% | $4,830 | 31.3% | 1 | 1 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| 22 | King Lear | $13,679 | $8,756 | 64% | $4,923 | 36% | 1 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
