| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 2 | $3,903,448 | -22% | 25% | 3 | Terms of Endearment | $3,125,453 | 80.1% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 2 | 1 | $3,505,691 | -32.1% | 22.4% | 3 | The Big Chill | $2,037,252 | 58.1% | 10 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 3 | 4 | $2,659,752 | -32.4% | 17% | 1 | A Christmas Story | $2,659,752 | 100% | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 4 | 3 | $2,008,433 | -53% | 12.9% | 2 | Never Say Never Again | $1,326,436 | 66% | 9 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 5 | 5 | $1,806,681 | -43.2% | 11.6% | 3 | All the Right Moves | $936,935 | 51.9% | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 6 | 7 | $1,020,600 | -37.8% | 6.5% | 1 | The Smurfs and the Magic Flute | $1,020,600 | 100% | 9 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - |
| 7 | 6 | $718,289 | -61.4% | 4.6% | 1 | Amityville 3-D | $718,289 | 100% | 3 | Orion Pictures | - |
