| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master | $18,075,424 | $12,833,403 | 71% | $5,242,021 | 29% | 1,765 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Young Guns | $8,006,743 | $5,037,716 | 62.9% | $2,969,027 | 37.1% | 1,416 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | A Fish Called Wanda | $7,046,040 | $4,407,331 | 62.6% | $2,638,709 | 37.4% | 1,215 | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | Die Hard | $6,828,982 | $4,523,326 | 66.2% | $2,305,656 | 33.8% | 1,629 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Cocktail | $6,265,525 | $4,004,424 | 63.9% | $2,261,101 | 36.1% | 1,462 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | $5,924,870 | $3,664,197 | 61.8% | $2,260,673 | 38.2% | 1,598 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Married to the Mob | $5,075,880 | $3,231,056 | 63.7% | $1,844,824 | 36.3% | 824 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | $4,049,180 | $2,782,700 | 68.7% | $1,266,480 | 31.3% | 720 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Coming to America | $3,794,619 | $2,512,639 | 66.2% | $1,281,980 | 33.8% | 1,273 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Midnight Run | $3,138,881 | $2,107,573 | 67.1% | $1,031,308 | 32.9% | 1,006 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Big | $2,807,839 | $1,725,815 | 61.5% | $1,082,024 | 38.5% | 1,071 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | The Big Blue | $2,377,346 | $1,617,462 | 68% | $759,884 | 32% | 967 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Clean and Sober | $2,187,568 | $1,442,666 | 66% | $744,902 | 34% | 675 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | Mac and Me | $1,691,599 | $1,021,054 | 60.4% | $670,545 | 39.6% | 1,317 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Last Temptation of Christ | $819,543 | $476,263 | 58.1% | $343,280 | 41.9% | 18 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Vincent | $7,846 | $4,632 | 59% | $3,214 | 41% | 1 | 1 | Roxie Releasing | - | false |
| 17 | The Year My Voice Broke | $1,158 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| - | Reform School Girls | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Bull Durham | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Bambi 1988 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Blob | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
