List of 1988 box office number-one films in the United States

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United States during 1988.[1]

Number-one films

#	Weekend end date	Film	Box office	Notes	Ref
1	January 3, 1988	Three Men and a Baby	$13,123,622	Buena Vista's biggest weekend of all-time.	[2]
2	January 10, 1988	Three Men and a Baby	$8,103,282		[3]
3	January 17, 1988	Good Morning, Vietnam	$11,752,913	Good Morning, Vietnam reached No. 1 in its fourth weekend of release after expanding to 785 theatres.	[4]
4	January 24, 1988		$10,806,276		[5]
5	January 31, 1988		$8,260,432		[6]
6	February 7, 1988		$8,564,496		[7]
7	February 15, 1988^{4-day weekend}		$9,011,354		[8]
8	February 21, 1988		$6,883,781		[9]
9	February 28, 1988		$5,232,945		[10]
10	March 6, 1988		$5,141,491		[11]
11	March 13, 1988		$4,369,592		[12]
12	March 20, 1988	Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach	$6,106,661	Police Academy 5 was the first non-Buena Vista film at number one for 12 weeks.	[13]
13	March 27, 1988	Biloxi Blues	$7,093,325		[14]
14	April 3, 1988	Beetlejuice	$8,030,897		[15]
15	April 10, 1988		$8,667,702		[16]
16	April 17, 1988		$7,145,123		[17]
17	April 24, 1988		$6,201,234		[18]
18	May 1, 1988	Colors	$6,524,536	Colors reached No. 1 in its third weekend of release.	[19]
19	May 8, 1988	Colors	$4,007,400		[20]
20	May 15, 1988	Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood	$8,245,038		[21]
21	May 22, 1988	Willow	$8,300,169		[22]
22	May 30, 1988^{4-day weekend}	Crocodile Dundee II	$24,462,976	Crocodile Dundee II had the highest weekend debut of 1988.	[23]
23	June 5, 1988		$12,717,140		[24]
24	June 12, 1988		$8,519,246		[25]
25	June 19, 1988	Red Heat	$8,133,822		[26]
26	June 26, 1988	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	$11,226,239	Buena Vista's biggest opening weekend beating Three Men and a Baby.	[27]
27	July 3, 1988	Coming to America	$21,404,420		[28]
28	July 10, 1988		$13,342,707		[29]
29	July 17, 1988		$10,417,790		[30]
30	July 24, 1988	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	$8,919,732	Who Framed Roger Rabbit reclaimed #1 in its fifth weekend of release.	[31]
31	July 31, 1988	Cocktail	$11,789,466		[32]
32	August 7, 1988	Cocktail	$8,204,479		[33]
33	August 14, 1988	Young Guns	$7,011,393		[34]
34	August 21, 1988	A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master	$12,833,403	A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master broke Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter's record ($11.1 million) for highest weekend debut for a slasher film.	[35]
35	August 28, 1988		$6,989,358		[36]
36	September 5, 1988^{4-day weekend}		$6,435,710		[37]
37	September 11, 1988	Moon over Parador	$3,268,975		[38]
38	September 18, 1988	A Fish Called Wanda	$2,555,291	A Fish Called Wanda reached No. 1 in its tenth weekend of release.	[39]
39	September 25, 1988	Dead Ringers	$3,012,180		[40]
40	October 2, 1988	Gorillas in the Mist	$3,451,230	Gorillas in the Mist reached No. 1 in its second week of release.	[41][42]
41	October 9, 1988	Alien Nation	$8,421,429		[43]
42	October 16, 1988	The Accused	$4,316,369		[44]
43	October 23, 1988	Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers	$6,831,250		[45]
44	October 30, 1988	Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers	$4,510,500		[46]
45	November 6, 1988	They Live	$4,827,903		[47]
46	November 13, 1988	Child's Play	$6,583,963		[48]
47	November 20, 1988	The Land Before Time	$7,526,025		[49]
48	November 27, 1988	Scrooged	$13,027,842		[50]
49	December 4, 1988	The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!	$9,331,746		[51]
50	December 11, 1988	Twins	$11,174,980		[52]
51	December 18, 1988		$7,781,130		[53]
52	December 26, 1988		$8,958,675		[54]
53	January 2, 1989	Rain Man	$14,350,610	Rain Man reached No. 1 in its third weekend of release.	[55]

Highest-grossing films

Calendar Gross

Highest-grossing films of 1988 by Calendar Gross[56]

Rank	Title	Studio(s)	Actor(s)	Director(s)	Gross
1.	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Walt Disney Studios	Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye and Joanna Cassidy	Robert Zemeckis	$156,452,370
2.	Coming to America	Paramount Pictures	Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Madge Sinclair and Shari Headley	John Landis	$128,152,301
3.	Good Morning, Vietnam	Walt Disney Studios	Robin Williams and Forest Whitaker	Barry Levinson	$122,231,991
4.	Big	20th Century Fox	Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia and John Heard	Penny Marshall	$114,968,774
5.	Crocodile Dundee II	Paramount Pictures	Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon	John Cornell	$109,306,210
6.	Three Men and a Baby	Walt Disney Studios	Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson	Leonard Nimoy	$90,528,478
7.	Die Hard	20th Century Fox	Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov and Bonnie Bedelia	John McTiernan	$83,008,852
8.	Moonstruck	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis and Danny Aiello	Norman Jewison	$80,034,239
9.	Cocktail	Walt Disney Studios	Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown and Elisabeth Shue	Roger Donaldson	$78,222,753
10.	Beetlejuice	Warner Bros. Pictures	Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton	Tim Burton	$73,707,461

In-Year Release

Highest-grossing films of 1988 by In-year release[57]
Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross
1.	Rain Man	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$172,825,435
2.	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Disney	$156,452,370
3.	Coming to America	Paramount	$128,152,301
4.	Big	Fox	$114,968,774
5.	Twins	Universal	$111,938,388
6.	Crocodile Dundee II	Paramount	$109,306,210
7.	Die Hard	Fox	$83,008,852
8.	The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!	Paramount	$78,756,177
9.	Cocktail	Disney	$78,222,753
10.	Beetlejuice	Warner Bros.	$73,707,461

Highest-grossing films by MPAA rating of 1988
G	Oliver & Company
PG	Who Framed Roger Rabbit
PG-13	The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
R	Rain Man

List of 1988 box office number-one films in the United States

Number-one films

Highest-grossing films

Calendar Gross

In-Year Release

References

See also