| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Good Morning, Vietnam | $8,654,477 | $6,883,781 | 79.5% | $1,770,696 | 20.5% | 1,598 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Shoot to Kill | $6,328,142 | $4,847,476 | 76.6% | $1,480,666 | 23.4% | 1,519 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Moonstruck | $6,091,854 | $4,738,329 | 77.8% | $1,353,525 | 22.2% | 1,168 | 10 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | Action Jackson | $4,628,047 | $3,610,062 | 78% | $1,017,985 | 22% | 1,249 | 2 | Lorimar Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Three Men and a Baby | $4,438,460 | $3,538,287 | 79.7% | $900,173 | 20.3% | 1,689 | 14 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Serpent and the Rainbow | $2,952,114 | $2,307,065 | 78.2% | $645,049 | 21.8% | 1,211 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | She's Having a Baby | $2,647,521 | $2,105,254 | 79.5% | $542,267 | 20.5% | 1,113 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Last Emperor | $2,211,421 | $1,710,481 | 77.4% | $500,940 | 22.6% | 375 | 14 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Satisfaction | $2,183,412 | $1,794,636 | 82.2% | $388,776 | 17.8% | 1,018 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Broadcast News | $2,154,684 | $1,647,772 | 76.5% | $506,912 | 23.5% | 798 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Ironweed | $1,822,008 | $1,399,655 | 76.8% | $422,353 | 23.2% | 600 | 10 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Fatal Attraction | $1,816,331 | $1,328,606 | 73.2% | $487,725 | 26.8% | 928 | 23 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | School Daze | $1,634,240 | $1,280,354 | 78.4% | $353,886 | 21.6% | 224 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Hope and Glory | $998,051 | $760,653 | 76.2% | $237,398 | 23.8% | 323 | 19 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | $282,243 | $189,152 | 67% | $93,091 | 33% | 15 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Cry Freedom | - | $802,235 | - | - | - | 479 | 16 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
