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List of 1986 box office number-one films in the United States

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This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United States during 1986.^[1]

Number-one films

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#	Weekend end date	Film	Box office	Notes	Ref
1	January 5, 1986	Rocky IV	$7,147,074		^[2]
2	January 12, 1986	Out of Africa	$5,137,370	Out of Africa reached number 1 in its fourth weekend of release.	^[3]
3	January 19, 1986	Iron Eagle	$6,104,754		^[4]
4	January 26, 1986	The Color Purple	$4,412,456	The Color Purple reached number 1 in its seventh weekend of release.	^[5]
5	February 2, 1986	Down and Out in Beverly Hills	$5,726,495		^[6]
6	February 9, 1986		$6,112,115		^[7]
7	February 17, 1986^{4-day weekend}		$7,023,743		^[8]
8	February 23, 1986		$5,042,912		^[9]
9	March 2, 1986	Pretty in Pink	$6,065,870		^[10]
10	March 9, 1986	Pretty in Pink	$4,919,668		^[11]
11	March 16, 1986	Gung Ho	$7,170,830		^[12]
12	March 23, 1986	Police Academy 3: Back in Training	$9,049,586		^[13]
13	March 30, 1986		$5,750,986		^[14]
14	April 6, 1986		$5,089,751		^[15]
15	April 13, 1986	The Money Pit	$3,646,200	The Money Pit reached number 1 in its third weekend of release.	^[16]
16	April 20, 1986	Legend	$4,261,154		^[17]
17	April 27, 1986	Legend	$2,591,751		^[18]
18	May 4, 1986	Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling	$4,879,107		^[19]
19	May 11, 1986	Short Circuit	$5,346,808	Independent sources suggested that the film only grossed between $4.5 to $4.725 million.	^[20]
20	May 18, 1986	Top Gun	$8,193,052		^[21]
21	May 26, 1986^{4-day weekend}	Cobra	$15,652,147	Cobra broke Superman II's record ($14.1 million) for highest weekend debut for a Warner Bros. film.	^[22]
22	June 1, 1986	Cobra	$7,511,542		^[23]
23	June 8, 1986	Top Gun	$8,231,279	Top Gun reclaimed number 1 in fourth weekend of release.	^[24]
24	June 15, 1986	Back to School	$8,881,035		^[25]
25	June 22, 1986	The Karate Kid Part II	$12,652,336		^[26]
26	June 29, 1986		$8,870,625		^[27]
27	July 6, 1986		$6,284,953		^[28]
28	July 13, 1986		$6,667,787		^[29]
29	July 20, 1986	Aliens	$10,052,042	Aliens broke Halloween II's record ($7.67 million) for highest weekend debut for a film featuring a female protagonist.	^[30]
30	July 27, 1986		$8,640,292		^[31]
31	August 3, 1986		$7,060,101	Initial estimates had Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives ahead of Aliens.	^[32]
32	August 10, 1986		$5,779,352		^[33]
33	August 17, 1986	The Fly	$7,007,423		^[34]
34	August 24, 1986	The Fly	$4,725,970		^[35]
35	September 1, 1986^{4-day weekend}	Stand by Me	$5,037,343	Stand by Me reached number 1 in its second weekend of release.	^[36]
36	September 7, 1986		$3,426,615		^[37]
37	September 14, 1986		$3,010,922		^[38]
38	September 21, 1986	Top Gun	$3,292,817	Top Gun reclaimed number 1 in its nineteenth week of release, with the 14 week gap since it was last number one, the longest gap for a film since 1982.	^[39]^[40]
39	September 28, 1986	Crocodile Dundee	$8,038,855	Crocodile Dundee set the record for highest-grossing weekend in September.	^[41]^[42]
40	October 5, 1986		$8,207,503		^[43]
41	October 13, 1986^{4-day weekend}		$10,560,827		^[44]
42	October 19, 1986		$7,434,202		^[45]
43	October 26, 1986		$6,745,249		^[46]
44	November 2, 1986		$5,716,215		^[47]
45	November 9, 1986		$6,392,661		^[48]
46	November 16, 1986		$5,521,551		^[49]
47	November 23, 1986		$5,537,875	In second place, An American Tail's opening ($5.2 million) broke The Fox and the Hound's record ($4.2 million) for the highest weekend debut for an animated film and The Care Bears Movie's record ($3.7 million) for the highest weekend debut for a non-Disney animated film.	^[50]
48	November 30, 1986	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	$16,881,888	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home had the highest weekend debut of 1986.	^[51]
49	December 7, 1986	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	$8,833,818		^[52]
50	December 14, 1986	The Golden Child	$11,549,711		^[53]
51	December 21, 1986		$7,877,899		^[54]
52	December 28, 1986		$10,118,277		^[55]

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Rank	Title	Studio(s)	Actor(s)	Director(s)	Gross
1.	Top Gun	Paramount Pictures	Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Skerritt	Tony Scott	$176,781,728
2.	Crocodile Dundee	Paramount Pictures	Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Mark Blum, David Gulpilil, Michael Lombard, and John Meillon	Peter Faiman	$116,849,307
3.	The Karate Kid Part II	Columbia Pictures	Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Tamlyn Tomita, and Yuji Okumoto	John G. Avildsen	$115,103,979
4.	Back to School	Orion Pictures	Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Keith Gordon, Burt Young, Terry Farrell, Robert Downey Jr., Paxton Whitehead, M. Emmet Walsh, and Adrienne Barbeau	Alan Metter	$91,258,000
5.	Aliens	20th Century Fox	Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Carrie Henn, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, and Lance Henriksen	James Cameron	$85,160,248
6.	The Color Purple	Warner Bros.	Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oprah Winfrey	Steven Spielberg	$83,993,103
7.	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Paramount Pictures	William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, and Catherine Hicks	Leonard Nimoy	$72,742,016
8.	Ruthless People	Buena Vista Distribution	Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Bette Midler, Anita Morris, and Bill Pullman	Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker	$70,788,212
9.	Out of Africa	Universal Pictures	Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Klaus Maria Brandauer	Sydney Pollack	$70,365,426
10.	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Paramount Pictures	Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, and Alan Ruck	John Hughes	$70,136,369

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross
1.	Top Gun	Paramount	$176,781,728
2.	Crocodile Dundee	Paramount	$174,803,506
3.	Platoon	Orion	$138,530,565
4.	The Karate Kid Part II	Columbia	$115,103,979
5.	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Paramount	$109,713,132
6.	Back to School	Orion	$91,258,000
7.	Aliens	20th Century Fox	$85,160,248
8.	The Golden Child	Paramount	$79,817,937
9.	Ruthless People	Disney	$71,624,879
10.	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Paramount	$70,136,369

List_of_1986_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States

List of 1986 box office number-one films in the United States

Number-one films

Highest-grossing films

Calendar Gross

In-Year Release

See also

References

Chronology

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G	An American Tail
PG	Top Gun
PG-13	Crocodile Dundee
R	Platoon