| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Good Morning, Vietnam | $6,801,692 | $5,232,945 | 76.9% | $1,568,747 | 23.1% | 1,598 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Frantic | $5,753,683 | $4,359,424 | 75.8% | $1,394,259 | 24.2% | 1,101 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Shoot to Kill | $4,696,929 | $3,514,252 | 74.8% | $1,182,677 | 25.2% | 1,482 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Moonstruck | $4,474,815 | $3,376,975 | 75.5% | $1,097,840 | 24.5% | 1,178 | 11 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 5 | Three Men and a Baby | $3,652,581 | $2,864,073 | 78.4% | $788,508 | 21.6% | 1,615 | 15 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon | $3,247,318 | $2,737,106 | 84.3% | $510,212 | 15.7% | 881 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Action Jackson | $3,155,598 | $2,431,466 | 77% | $724,132 | 23% | 1,243 | 3 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Broadcast News | $1,798,120 | $1,349,287 | 75% | $448,833 | 25% | 826 | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | The Serpent and the Rainbow | $1,734,705 | $1,328,480 | 76.6% | $406,225 | 23.4% | 874 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | She's Having a Baby | $1,706,458 | $1,340,054 | 78.5% | $366,404 | 21.5% | 1,009 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Last Emperor | $1,606,492 | $1,211,122 | 75.4% | $395,370 | 24.6% | 377 | 15 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | School Daze | $1,353,967 | $1,140,391 | 84.2% | $213,576 | 15.8% | 202 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Fatal Attraction | $1,220,540 | $888,368 | 72.8% | $332,172 | 27.2% | 718 | 24 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Ironweed | $1,137,504 | $838,504 | 73.7% | $299,000 | 26.3% | 562 | 11 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Satisfaction | $1,088,293 | $875,811 | 80.5% | $212,482 | 19.5% | 742 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 16 | Hairspray | $808,610 | $577,287 | 71.4% | $231,323 | 28.6% | 79 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 17 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | $792,687 | $557,540 | 70.3% | $235,147 | 29.7% | 80 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Hope and Glory | $769,691 | $579,101 | 75.2% | $190,590 | 24.8% | 328 | 20 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Bloodsport | $690,524 | $515,721 | 74.7% | $174,803 | 25.3% | 123 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 20 | Taffin | $159,969 | $107,303 | 67.1% | $52,666 | 32.9% | 204 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Aloha Summer | - | $259,867 | - | - | - | - | 1 | International Spectrafilm | - | false |
| - | Cry Freedom | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
