| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Fly II | $8,395,197 | $6,751,371 | 80.4% | $1,643,826 | 19.6% | 1,524 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Three Fugitives | $6,504,585 | $5,096,954 | 78.4% | $1,407,631 | 21.6% | 1,374 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Rain Man | $6,213,455 | $4,540,785 | 73.1% | $1,672,670 | 26.9% | 1,573 | 9 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | Beaches | $4,904,366 | $3,707,524 | 75.6% | $1,196,842 | 24.4% | 1,122 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Her Alibi | $4,498,499 | $3,443,772 | 76.6% | $1,054,727 | 23.4% | 1,429 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | Cousins | $4,127,669 | $3,039,805 | 73.6% | $1,087,864 | 26.4% | 535 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Twins | $3,661,120 | $2,865,240 | 78.3% | $795,880 | 21.7% | 1,512 | 10 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Who's Harry Crumb? | $2,931,506 | $2,314,536 | 79% | $616,970 | 21% | 1,198 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Tap | $2,922,075 | $2,217,150 | 75.9% | $704,925 | 24.1% | 585 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Working Girl | $2,841,392 | $2,109,890 | 74.3% | $731,502 | 25.7% | 1,100 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Mississippi Burning | $2,415,960 | $1,725,034 | 71.4% | $690,926 | 28.6% | 1,056 | 10 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Dangerous Liaisons | $2,132,484 | $1,808,801 | 84.8% | $323,683 | 15.2% | 347 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | $1,769,889 | $1,352,976 | 76.4% | $416,913 | 23.6% | 1,026 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Accidental Tourist | $1,186,282 | $855,614 | 72.1% | $330,668 | 27.9% | 565 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
