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

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
1		Three Men and a Baby	$13,123,622	Buena Vista's biggest weekend of all-time.	^[2]
2			$8,103,282		^[3]
3		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			$10,806,276		^[5]
5			$8,260,432		^[6]
6			$8,564,496		^[7]
7	^4-day weekend		$9,011,354		^[8]
8			$6,883,781		^[9]
9			$5,232,945		^[10]
10			$5,141,491		^[11]
11			$4,369,592		^[12]
12			$6,106,661	Police Academy 5 was the first non-Buena Vista film at number one for 12 weeks.	^[13]
13		Biloxi Blues	$7,093,325		^[14]
14		Beetlejuice	$8,030,897		^[15]
15			$8,667,702		^[16]
16			$7,145,123		^[17]
17			$6,201,234		^[18]
18		Colors	$6,524,536	Colors reached No. 1 in its third weekend of release.	^[19]
19			$4,007,400		^[20]
20			$8,245,038		^[21]
21		Willow	$8,300,169		^[22]
22	^4-day weekend	Crocodile Dundee II	$24,462,976	Crocodile Dundee II broke National Lampoon's European Vacations record ($12 million) for the highest weekend debut for a comedy film and had the highest weekend debut of 1988.	^[23]
23			$12,717,140		^[24]
24			$8,519,246		^[25]
25		Red Heat	$8,133,822		^[26]
26		Who Framed Roger Rabbit	$11,226,239	Buena Vista's biggest opening weekend beating Three Men and a Baby.	^[27]
27	^4-day weekend	Coming to America	$21,404,420	Coming to America broke Back to the Futures record ($11.1 million) for the highest Fourth of July weekend debut.	^[28]
28			$13,342,707		^[29]
29			$10,417,790		^[30]
30		Who Framed Roger Rabbit	$8,919,732	Who Framed Roger Rabbit reclaimed #1 in its fifth weekend of release.	^[31]
31		Cocktail	$11,789,466		^[32]
32			$8,204,479		^[33]
33		Young Guns	$7,011,393		^[34]
34			$12,833,403	A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master broke s record ($11.1 million) for highest weekend debut for a slasher film, and also broke Smokey and the Bandit IIs record ($10.8 million) for the highest weekend debut in the month of August.	^[35]
35			$6,989,358		^[36]
36	^4-day weekend		$6,435,710		^[37]
37		Moon over Parador	$3,268,975		^[38]
38		A Fish Called Wanda	$2,555,291	A Fish Called Wanda reached No. 1 in its tenth weekend of release.	^[39]
39		Dead Ringers	$3,012,180		^[40]
40		Gorillas in the Mist	$3,451,230	Gorillas in the Mist reached No. 1 in its second week of release.	^[41] ^[42]
41	^4-day weekend	Alien Nation	$8,421,429		^[43]
42		The Accused	$4,316,369		^[44]
43			$6,831,250		^[45]
44			$4,510,500		^[46]
45		They Live	$4,827,903		^[47]
46		Child's Play	$6,583,963		^[48]
47		The Land Before Time	$7,526,025	The Land Before Time broke An American Tails record ($5.2 million) for the highest weekend debut for an animated film and for a non-Disney animated film.	^[49]
48		Scrooged	$13,027,842		^[50]
49			$9,331,746		^[51]
50		Twins	$11,174,980		^[52]
51			$7,781,130		^[53]
52			$8,958,675		^[54]
53		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 and 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, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Reginald VelJohnson, Hart Bochner, Paul Gleason and Robert Davi	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		$172,825,435
2.	Who Framed Roger Rabbit		$156,452,370
3.	Coming to America		$128,152,301
4.	Big		$114,968,774
5.	Twins		$111,938,388
6.	Crocodile Dundee II		$109,306,210
7.	Die Hard		$83,008,852
8.			$78,756,177
9.	Cocktail		$78,222,753
10.	Beetlejuice		$73,707,461

Highest-grossing films by MPAA rating of 1988

G	Oliver & Company
PG	Who Framed Roger Rabbit
PG-13
R	Rain Man

See also

• List of American films — American films by year
• Lists of box office number-one films

Notes and References

1. Web site: Domestic Box Office Weekends For 1988. .
2. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 1. Box Office Mojo.
3. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 2. Box Office Mojo.
4. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 3. Box Office Mojo.
5. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 4. Box Office Mojo.
6. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 5. Box Office Mojo.
7. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 6. Box Office Mojo.
8. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 7 (Presidents' Day weekend). Box Office Mojo.
9. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 8. Box Office Mojo.
10. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 9. Box Office Mojo.
11. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 10. Box Office Mojo.
12. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 11. Box Office Mojo.
13. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 12. Box Office Mojo.
14. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 13. Box Office Mojo.
15. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 14. Box Office Mojo.
16. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 15. Box Office Mojo.
17. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 16. Box Office Mojo.
18. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 17. Box Office Mojo.
19. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 18. Box Office Mojo.
20. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 19. Box Office Mojo.
21. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 20. Box Office Mojo.
22. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 21. Box Office Mojo.
23. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 22 (Memorial Day weekend). Box Office Mojo.
24. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 23. Box Office Mojo.
25. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 24. Box Office Mojo.
26. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 25. Box Office Mojo.
27. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 26. Box Office Mojo.
28. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 27 (July 4th long weekend). Box Office Mojo.
29. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 28. Box Office Mojo.
30. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 29. Box Office Mojo.
31. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 30. Box Office Mojo.
32. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 31. Box Office Mojo.
33. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 32. Box Office Mojo.
34. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 33. Box Office Mojo.
35. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 34. Box Office Mojo.
36. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 35. Box Office Mojo.
37. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 36 (Labor Day weekend). Box Office Mojo.
38. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 37. Box Office Mojo.
39. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 38. Box Office Mojo.
40. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 39. Box Office Mojo.
41. Variety. 'Gorillas' Goes Ape; 'Delancey' Keen; 'Hotel' A Disney Heartbreaker. 3. October 5, 1988. McCarthy. Todd. Todd McCarthy.
42. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 40. Box Office Mojo.
43. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 41 (Indigenous Peoples' Day Weekend). Box Office Mojo.
44. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 42. Box Office Mojo.
45. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 43. Box Office Mojo.
46. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 44. Box Office Mojo.
47. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 45. Box Office Mojo.
48. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 46. Box Office Mojo.
49. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 47. Box Office Mojo.
50. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 48 (Thanksgiving 3-Day weekend). Box Office Mojo.
51. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 49 (Post-Thanksgiving). Box Office Mojo.
52. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 50. Box Office Mojo.
53. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 51. Box Office Mojo.
54. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 52 (Christmas long weekend). Box Office Mojo.
55. Web site: Domestic 1988 Weekend 53 (New Year's long weekend). Box Office Mojo.
56. Web site: Domestic Box Office For 1988. Box Office Mojo. February 14, 2020.
57. Web site: Domestic Box Office For 1988 (In-year release). Box Office Mojo. February 14, 2020.