| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 4 | $6,290,946 | -12% | 20.6% | 3 | Places in the Heart | $4,419,997 | 70.3% | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 2 | 5 | $6,043,469 | -10.3% | 19.8% | 3 | Ghostbusters | $2,207,367 | 36.5% | 19 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 3 | 1 | $6,004,756 | -26.3% | 19.6% | 2 | Teachers | $5,832,204 | 97.1% | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 4 | 2 | $5,607,292 | -28.7% | 18.3% | 2 | All of Me | $4,148,782 | 74% | 4 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 5 | 3 | $4,030,980 | -44.1% | 13.2% | 3 | Irreconcilable Differences | $2,286,167 | 56.7% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 6 | 7 | $1,429,808 | +68.2% | 4.7% | 1 | Amadeus | $1,429,808 | 100% | 4 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 7 | 9 | $791,216 | +278% | 2.6% | 1 | Country | $791,216 | 100% | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 8 | 8 | $376,028 | -20.6% | 1.2% | 1 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $376,028 | 100% | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
