| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 2 | Police Academy | $6,101,974 | +6.9% | 1,587 | +217 | $3,844 | $46,450,269 | 5 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 2 | 1 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | $5,754,628 | -48.5% | 1,600 | +6 | $3,596 | $20,836,719 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | 3 | Romancing the Stone | $5,686,311 | +2.4% | 1,072 | +105 | $5,304 | $27,908,776 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 4 | 4 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $4,643,186 | +2.6% | 1,175 | +315 | $3,951 | $27,443,560 | 4 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 5 | 5 | Splash | $3,763,799 | +2.8% | 1,186 | +134 | $3,173 | $47,979,870 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | 6 | Moscow on the Hudson | $3,476,862 | +12.2% | 711 | +65 | $4,890 | $12,508,042 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 7 | 10 | Footloose | $2,443,796 | +9.2% | 1,045 | +47 | $2,338 | $60,535,312 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 8 | 13 | Iceman | $1,835,185 | <0.1% | 671 | +29 | $2,735 | $4,525,185 | 2 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 9 | 9 | Swing Shift | $1,821,507 | -19.8% | 814 | +104 | $2,237 | $4,919,785 | 2 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 10 | 7 | Terms of Endearment | $1,613,857 | -29.9% | 850 | -68 | $1,898 | $100,362,140 | 22 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 11 | 8 | Where the Boys Are | $1,371,029 | -40.4% | 814 | -589 | $1,684 | $9,153,029 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | false | false |
| 12 | 11 | Up the Creek | $1,233,809 | -41.9% | 729 | -477 | $1,692 | $8,336,090 | 3 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 13 | 12 | Hard to Hold | $1,046,500 | -44.9% | 700 | -313 | $1,495 | $7,770,500 | 3 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 14 | 14 | This Is Spinal Tap | $235,910 | +79% | 62 | +34 | $3,805 | $1,233,416 | 8 | Embassy Pictures | false | false |
| 15 | - | Champions | $54,262 | - | 39 | - | $1,391 | $54,262 | 1 | AVCO Embassy Pictures | true | false |
