| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Good Morning, Vietnam | $10,813,508 | $8,564,496 | 79.2% | $2,249,012 | 20.8% | 1,579 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Serpent and the Rainbow | $7,410,597 | $5,848,700 | 78.9% | $1,561,897 | 21.1% | 1,430 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Moonstruck | $5,874,620 | $4,590,988 | 78.2% | $1,283,632 | 21.8% | 985 | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | Three Men and a Baby | $5,169,033 | $4,102,139 | 79.4% | $1,066,894 | 20.6% | 1,813 | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | She's Having a Baby | $4,695,440 | $3,827,520 | 81.5% | $867,920 | 18.5% | 925 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Last Emperor | $2,339,210 | $1,795,760 | 76.8% | $543,450 | 23.2% | 371 | 12 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Broadcast News | $2,314,767 | $1,829,086 | 79% | $485,681 | 21% | 848 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | For Keeps? | $1,653,051 | $1,378,050 | 83.4% | $275,001 | 16.6% | 958 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Fatal Attraction | $1,532,061 | $1,180,619 | 77.1% | $351,442 | 22.9% | 878 | 21 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Throw Momma from the Train | $1,350,365 | $1,050,201 | 77.8% | $300,164 | 22.2% | 1,028 | 9 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Wall Street | $1,270,623 | $942,830 | 74.2% | $327,793 | 25.8% | 762 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | Eddie Murphy: Raw | $950,700 | $722,336 | 76% | $228,364 | 24% | 667 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | $313,635 | $202,189 | 64.5% | $111,446 | 35.5% | 13 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Hope and Glory | $272,596 | $220,657 | 81% | $51,939 | 19% | 86 | 17 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The in Crowd | $88,207 | - | - | - | - | 37 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Promised Land | - | - | - | - | - | 67 | 3 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| - | Braddock: Missing in Action III | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Siesta | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Overboard | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Gandahar | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Couch Trip | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | *batteries not included | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Five Corners | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Cineplex Odeon Films | - | false |
| - | Return of the Living Dead II | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
