| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | $30,854,724 | $21,230,164 | 68.8% | $9,624,560 | 31.2% | 2,327 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | No Holds Barred | $6,398,098 | $4,957,052 | 77.5% | $1,441,046 | 22.5% | 1,318 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 3 | See No Evil, Hear No Evil | $5,737,200 | $4,057,200 | 70.7% | $1,680,000 | 29.3% | 1,680 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Field of Dreams | $5,274,525 | $3,740,000 | 70.9% | $1,534,525 | 29.1% | 1,100 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Road House | $4,436,751 | $3,006,320 | 67.8% | $1,430,431 | 32.2% | 1,880 | 3 | United Artists | - | false |
| 6 | Renegades | $4,303,415 | $3,075,030 | 71.5% | $1,228,385 | 28.5% | 1,627 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Pink Cadillac | $3,448,235 | $2,492,256 | 72.3% | $955,979 | 27.7% | 1,993 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | K-9 | $2,559,005 | $1,842,870 | 72% | $716,135 | 28% | 1,307 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Pet Sematary | $2,540,089 | $1,710,585 | 67.3% | $829,504 | 32.7% | 1,248 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Major League | $1,379,168 | $963,636 | 69.9% | $415,532 | 30.1% | 906 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Rain Man | $1,066,103 | $745,914 | 70% | $320,189 | 30% | 743 | 25 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 12 | Say Anything | $719,356 | $472,268 | 65.6% | $247,088 | 34.4% | 423 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | Scandal | $708,313 | $569,425 | 80.4% | $138,888 | 19.6% | 351 | 6 | Miramax | - | false |
| 14 | Dead Poets Society | $607,399 | $340,456 | 56% | $266,943 | 44% | 8 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | $276,198 | $166,370 | 60.2% | $109,828 | 39.8% | 116 | 13 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Vampire's Kiss | $142,936 | $96,699 | 67.6% | $46,237 | 32.4% | 29 | 1 | Hemdale | - | false |
| 17 | Twins | $111,650 | $111,650 | 100% | $0 | - | 145 | 26 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills | $37,851 | $25,635 | 67.7% | $12,216 | 32.3% | 1 | 1 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Far from Home | $6,407 | $3,763 | 58.7% | $2,644 | 41.3% | 4 | 1 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| - | High Hopes | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | 15 | Skouras Pictures | - | false |
| - | Wuthering Heights | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 9 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Beaches | - | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
