| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Good Morning, Vietnam | $6,628,601 | $5,141,491 | 77.6% | $1,487,110 | 22.4% | 1,591 | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Moving | $5,064,758 | $4,022,782 | 79.4% | $1,041,976 | 20.6% | 1,404 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Frantic | $4,862,677 | $3,717,362 | 76.4% | $1,145,315 | 23.6% | 1,101 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Moonstruck | $4,336,592 | $3,287,038 | 75.8% | $1,049,554 | 24.2% | 1,177 | 12 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 5 | Shoot to Kill | $4,088,673 | $3,115,996 | 76.2% | $972,677 | 23.8% | 1,283 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Three Men and a Baby | $3,903,228 | $3,142,904 | 80.5% | $760,324 | 19.5% | 1,472 | 16 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Switching Channels | $3,881,752 | $3,121,752 | 80.4% | $760,000 | 19.6% | 971 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Action Jackson | $2,336,473 | $1,811,093 | 77.5% | $525,380 | 22.5% | 1,107 | 4 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon | $1,805,312 | $1,478,376 | 81.9% | $326,936 | 18.1% | 882 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | The Last Emperor | $1,743,792 | $1,342,857 | 77% | $400,935 | 23% | 494 | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Broadcast News | $1,529,061 | $1,136,401 | 74.3% | $392,660 | 25.7% | 735 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | School Daze | $1,437,066 | $1,154,312 | 80.3% | $282,754 | 19.7% | 211 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | She's Having a Baby | $1,176,163 | $913,749 | 77.7% | $262,414 | 22.3% | 756 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | $815,088 | $576,735 | 70.8% | $238,353 | 29.2% | 80 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Hairspray | $680,580 | $577,258 | 84.8% | $103,322 | 15.2% | 79 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 16 | And God Created Woman | $562,253 | $393,647 | 70% | $168,606 | 30% | 385 | 1 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Bloodsport | $543,626 | $409,690 | 75.4% | $133,936 | 24.6% | 124 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Ironweed | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Serpent and the Rainbow | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Salvador | - | - | - | - | - | - | 106 | Hemdale | - | false |
| - | Desert Hearts | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | 16 Days of Glory | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Satisfaction | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The Naked Cage | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | My Beautiful Laundrette | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Orion Classics | - | false |
