| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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|---|
| 1 | 5 | $9,501,789 | +73.7% | 18.7% | 4 | Lean on Me | $6,442,458 | 67.8% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 2 | $8,670,784 | +11.1% | 17% | 3 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | $5,457,772 | 62.9% | 3 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 6 | $6,823,310 | +32.3% | 13.4% | 3 | Skin Deep | $3,296,020 | 48.3% | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 4 | 1 | $6,803,577 | -26.8% | 13.4% | 2 | The 'Burbs | $5,262,740 | 77.4% | 3 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 5 | 3 | $6,511,563 | -1.1% | 12.8% | 3 | Three Fugitives | $3,143,996 | 48.3% | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 6 | 4 | $5,013,676 | -17.3% | 9.9% | 1 | Rain Man | $5,013,676 | 100% | 12 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 7 | 7 | $2,918,180 | -3% | 5.7% | 1 | Cousins | $2,918,180 | 100% | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 9 | 8 | $1,530,683 | -34.8% | 3% | 2 | True Believer | $1,528,311 | 99.8% | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - |
