| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Spring Break | $6,140,035 | $4,448,821 | 72.5% | $1,691,214 | 27.5% | 1,531 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Outsiders | $5,528,578 | $3,799,847 | 68.7% | $1,728,731 | 31.3% | 829 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | High Road to China | $4,653,510 | $3,410,477 | 73.3% | $1,243,033 | 26.7% | 1,421 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Tootsie | $4,111,212 | $2,937,159 | 71.4% | $1,174,053 | 28.6% | 1,049 | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Max Dugan Returns | $3,599,607 | $2,541,407 | 70.6% | $1,058,200 | 29.4% | 801 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | The Sword in the Stone | $3,152,976 | $1,751,997 | 55.6% | $1,400,979 | 44.4% | 741 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Monty Python's the Meaning of Life | $3,139,283 | $1,987,853 | 63.3% | $1,151,430 | 36.7% | 257 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Black Stallion Returns | $2,834,407 | $1,923,500 | 67.9% | $910,907 | 32.1% | 1,376 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 9 | Bad Boys | $2,486,612 | $1,723,624 | 69.3% | $762,988 | 30.7% | 484 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Gandhi | $2,193,642 | $1,484,322 | 67.7% | $709,320 | 32.3% | 495 | 17 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $1,672,112 | $1,049,900 | 62.8% | $622,212 | 37.2% | 678 | 43 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Raiders of the Lost Ark 1983 Re-release | $1,650,563 | $1,108,693 | 67.2% | $541,870 | 32.8% | 565 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Man, Woman and Child | $1,064,674 | $802,702 | 75.4% | $261,972 | 24.6% | 350 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | My Tutor | $330,642 | $221,496 | 67% | $109,146 | 33% | 78 | 5 | Crown | - | false |
| - | The King of Comedy | - | - | - | - | - | 76 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Tough Enough | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The Verdict | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Table for Five | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Atlantic City | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Local Hero | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
