| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Beetlejuice | $9,220,123 | $7,145,123 | 77.5% | $2,075,000 | 22.5% | 1,582 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Colors | $6,909,054 | $4,747,118 | 68.7% | $2,161,936 | 31.3% | 422 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Last Emperor | $4,578,141 | $3,398,662 | 74.2% | $1,179,479 | 25.8% | 877 | 22 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Biloxi Blues | $4,392,630 | $3,413,880 | 77.7% | $978,750 | 22.3% | 1,308 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Return to Snowy River | $4,051,036 | $3,023,248 | 74.6% | $1,027,788 | 25.4% | 1,121 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Moonstruck | $3,926,027 | $2,900,253 | 73.9% | $1,025,774 | 26.1% | 1,025 | 18 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | The Seventh Sign | $3,600,266 | $2,784,019 | 77.3% | $816,247 | 22.7% | 1,198 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Bad Dreams | $2,883,125 | $2,239,963 | 77.7% | $643,162 | 22.3% | 1,185 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Good Morning, Vietnam | $2,671,866 | $2,084,727 | 78% | $587,139 | 22% | 1,128 | 17 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Bright Lights, Big City | $2,548,574 | $1,898,023 | 74.5% | $650,551 | 25.5% | 1,103 | 3 | United Artists | - | false |
| 11 | Above the Law | $2,222,260 | $1,619,679 | 72.9% | $602,581 | 27.1% | 350 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | The Fox and the Hound 1988 Re-release | $2,159,227 | $1,597,482 | 74% | $561,745 | 26% | 1,539 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Stand and Deliver | $1,730,960 | $1,297,511 | 75% | $433,449 | 25% | 444 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | Johnny Be Good | $1,473,217 | $1,112,598 | 75.5% | $360,619 | 24.5% | 1,052 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Milagro Beanfield War | $1,032,652 | $748,969 | 72.5% | $283,683 | 27.5% | 154 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Plain Clothes | $289,323 | $222,681 | 77% | $66,642 | 23% | 193 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | The Moderns | $33,235 | $20,283 | 61% | $12,952 | 39% | 1 | 1 | Alive Films | - | false |
| - | Appointment with Death | - | $603,650 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Broadcast News | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | A New Life | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | 18 Again! | - | $486,825 | - | - | - | - | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Hope and Glory | - | - | - | - | - | - | 27 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Fatal Attraction | - | - | - | - | - | - | 31 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
