| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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| 1 | 5 | $7,296,200 | +75.6% | 18.3% | 4 | Lean on Me | $5,032,605 | 69% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 2 | $6,841,127 | +10.5% | 17.2% | 3 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | $4,451,440 | 65.1% | 3 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 1 | $5,530,345 | -26.7% | 13.9% | 2 | The 'Burbs | $4,312,410 | 78% | 3 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 4 | 6 | $5,135,995 | +31.2% | 12.9% | 3 | Skin Deep | $2,460,262 | 47.9% | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 5 | 3 | $4,968,814 | -1.6% | 12.5% | 3 | Three Fugitives | $2,516,263 | 50.6% | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 6 | 4 | $3,858,147 | -18.1% | 9.7% | 1 | Rain Man | $3,858,147 | 100% | 12 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 8 | 7 | $2,233,755 | -0.9% | 5.6% | 1 | Cousins | $2,233,755 | 100% | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 9 | 8 | $1,166,223 | -35.6% | 2.9% | 1 | True Believer | $1,166,223 | 100% | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - |
