| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Good Morning, Vietnam | $11,027,439 | $8,260,432 | 74.9% | $2,767,007 | 25.1% | 1,213 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Three Men and a Baby | $6,418,019 | $5,138,828 | 80.1% | $1,279,191 | 19.9% | 1,813 | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Moonstruck | $5,455,403 | $4,056,097 | 74.4% | $1,399,306 | 25.6% | 635 | 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | Broadcast News | $2,824,331 | $2,161,650 | 76.5% | $662,681 | 23.5% | 813 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | For Keeps? | $2,743,750 | $2,296,750 | 83.7% | $447,000 | 16.3% | 958 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Throw Momma from the Train | $2,060,612 | $1,588,217 | 77.1% | $472,395 | 22.9% | 1,356 | 8 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Couch Trip | $1,953,812 | $1,443,703 | 73.9% | $510,109 | 26.1% | 1,277 | 3 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Fatal Attraction | $1,928,140 | $1,458,590 | 75.6% | $469,550 | 24.4% | 1,002 | 20 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Braddock: Missing in Action III | $1,790,148 | $1,351,196 | 75.5% | $438,952 | 24.5% | 1,035 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 10 | Wall Street | $1,737,655 | $1,278,457 | 73.6% | $459,198 | 26.4% | 934 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Eddie Murphy: Raw | $1,639,624 | $1,208,602 | 73.7% | $431,022 | 26.3% | 968 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Overboard | $1,392,863 | $1,088,811 | 78.2% | $304,052 | 21.8% | 1,091 | 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 13 | *batteries not included | $1,225,950 | $1,011,360 | 82.5% | $214,590 | 17.5% | 1,070 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Return of the Living Dead II | $1,061,717 | $1,061,717 | 100% | $0 | - | 994 | 3 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | $927,218 | $701,601 | 75.7% | $225,617 | 24.3% | 775 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Last Emperor | $921,741 | $670,175 | 72.7% | $251,566 | 27.3% | 117 | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Five Corners | $114,463 | - | - | - | - | 13 | 2 | Cineplex Odeon Films | - | false |
| 18 | Gandahar | $68,209 | $48,665 | 71.4% | $19,544 | 28.6% | 7 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 19 | Siesta | $32,000 | - | - | - | - | 30 | 13 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Hope and Glory | - | - | - | - | - | 91 | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | King Lear | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Empire of the Sun | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Family | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Telephone | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
