List of 1989 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 1989.^[1]

Number-one films

†	This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year.[2]

#	Weekend end date	Film	Box office	Notes	Ref
1	January 8, 1989	Rain Man	$9,245,626		[3]
2	January 15, 1989		$10,111,504		[4]
3	January 22, 1989		$7,003,147		[5]
4	January 29, 1989		$6,829,705		[6]
5	February 5, 1989	Three Fugitives	$5,477,051	Three Fugitives reached #1 in its second weekend of release.	[7]
6	February 12, 1989	The Fly II	$6,751,371		[8]
7	February 20, 19894-day weekend	The 'Burbs	$11,101,197		[9]
8	February 26, 1989		$6,024,480		[10]
9	March 5, 1989	Lean on Me	$5,032,605		[11]
10	March 12, 1989		$4,579,440		[12]
11	March 19, 1989	Fletch Lives	$8,045,760		[13]
12	March 26, 1989		$5,647,320		[14]
13	April 2, 1989	Rain Man	$5,537,165	Rain Man reclaimed #1 in sixteenth weekend of release.	[15]
14	April 9, 1989	Major League	$8,836,265		[16]
15	April 16, 1989		$7,070,809		[17]
16	April 23, 1989	Pet Sematary	$12,046,179	Pet Sematary broke Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter's record ($11.1 million) for the highest weekend debut in April.	[18]
17	April 30, 1989		$8,380,098		[19]
18	May 7, 1989		$6,338,594		[20]
19	May 14, 1989	See No Evil, Hear No Evil	$7,098,741		[21]
20	May 21, 1989		$6,105,120		[22]
21	May 29, 19894-day weekend	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	$37,031,573	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade broke Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom's records ($33.9 million) for the 4-day highest Memorial Day weekend debut as well as for the highest weekend debut of all-time.	[23]
22	June 4, 1989		$21,230,164	Biggest second weekend gross of all-time surpassing Return of the Jedi's $17.2 million.	[24]
23	June 11, 1989	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier	$17,375,648	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier broke Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home's record ($16.8 million) for the highest weekend debut for a film based on a television show.	[25]
24	June 18, 1989	Ghostbusters II	$29,472,894	Ghostbusters II set a record 3-day weekend surpassing Indiana Jones and the Last Crusades record $29,355,021 set 3 weeks earlier.	[26]
25	June 25, 1989	Batman †	$40,489,746	Batman broke Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade's record ($37 million) for the highest weekend debut of all time (which had been set one month earlier). It also broke Superman II's record ($14.1 million) for the highest weekend debut for a superhero film and Cobra's record ($15.6 million) for highest weekend debut for a Warner Bros. film. It had the highest weekend debut of 1989.	[27]
26	July 2, 1989		$30,075,189	Batman broke Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade's record ($21.2 million) for the highest second weekend gross (which had been set one month earlier).	[28]
27	July 9, 1989	Lethal Weapon 2	$20,388,800		[29]
28	July 16, 1989		$17,188,126		[30]
29	July 23, 1989		$13,022,249		[31]
30	July 30, 1989	Turner & Hooch	$12,211,042		[32]
31	August 6, 1989	Parenthood	$10,506,450		[33]
32	August 13, 1989		$9,672,350		[34]
33	August 20, 1989	Uncle Buck	$8,794,501		[35]
34	August 27, 1989		$6,725,275		[36]
35	September 4, 19894-day weekend		$7,822,640		[37]
36	September 10, 1989		$4,550,887		[38]
37	September 17, 1989	Sea of Love	$10,017,840	Sea of Love broke Crocodile Dundee's record ($8 million) for the highest weekend debut in September.	[39][40]
38	September 24, 1989	Black Rain	$9,677,102		[41]
39	October 1, 1989		$6,503,065		[42]
40	October 9, 19894-day weekend		$6,100,000		[43]
41	October 15, 1989	Look Who's Talking	$12,107,784	Look Who's Talking broke Never Say Never Again's 1983 record ($11 million) for the highest weekend debut for a film released during the month of October.	[44]
42	October 22, 1989		$14,147,340	Look Who's Talking sets another record weekend gross for the month of October.	[45]
43	October 29, 1989		$11,556,750		[46]
44	November 5, 1989		$11,457,810		[47]
45	November 12, 1989		$11,409,873		[48]
46	November 19, 1989	Harlem Nights	$16,096,808	Biggest pre-holiday fall opening. In third place, The Little Mermaid's opening ($6 million) broke The Fox and the Hound's record ($4.2 million) for the highest weekend debut for a Walt Disney Animation Studios film.	[49]
47	November 26, 1989	Back to the Future Part II	$27,835,125	Back to the Future Part II broke Rocky IV's record ($19.9 million) for the highest Thanksgiving weekend debut.	[50][51]
48	December 3, 1989		$12,110,340		[52]
49	December 10, 1989	The War of the Roses	$9,488,794		[53]
50	December 17, 1989	National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation	$7,233,119	National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation reached #1 in its third weekend of release.	[54]
51	December 24, 1989		$7,007,789		[55]
52	December 31, 1989	The War of the Roses	$10,490,781	The War of the Roses reclaimed #1 in fourth weekend of release.	[56]

Highest-grossing films

Calendar gross

Highest-grossing films of 1989 for tickets sold within the calendar year^[2]

Rank	Title	Studio(s)	Actor(s)	Director(s)	Gross
1.	Batman	Warner Bros. Pictures	Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough and Jack Palance	Tim Burton	$251,188,924
2.	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Paramount Pictures	Harrison Ford, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover and Sean Connery	Steven Spielberg	$197,171,806
3.	Lethal Weapon 2	Warner Bros. Pictures	Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor and Patsy Kensit	Richard Donner	$147,253,986
4.	Rain Man	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise and Valeria Golino	Barry Levinson	$139,602,956
5.	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids	Walt Disney Studios	Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman and Kristine Sutherland	Joe Johnston	$130,724,172
6.	Look Who's Talking	TriStar Pictures	John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal, Abe Vigoda and Bruce Willis	Amy Heckerling	$113,455,801
7.	Ghostbusters II	Columbia Pictures	Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts	Ivan Reitman	$112,494,738
8.	Dead Poets Society	Walt Disney Studios	Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Norman Lloyd and Kurtwood Smith	Peter Weir	$95,860,116
9.	Parenthood	Universal Pictures	Steve Martin, Tom Hulce, Rick Moranis, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen and Dianne Wiest	Ron Howard	$95,527,843
10.	Back to the Future Part II		Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Elisabeth Shue and Jeffrey Weissman	Robert Zemeckis	$93,592,195

In-Year Release

Highest-grossing films of 1989 by In-year release^[57]

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross
1.	Batman	Warner Bros.	$251,188,924
2.	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Paramount	$197,171,806
3.	Lethal Weapon 2	Warner Bros.	$147,253,986
4.	Look Who's Talking	TriStar	$140,088,813
5.	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids	Disney	$130,724,172
6.	Back to the Future Part II	Universal	$118,450,002
7.	Ghostbusters II	Columbia	$112,494,738
8.	Driving Miss Daisy	Warner Bros.	$106,593,296
9.	Parenthood	Universal	$100,047,830
10.	Dead Poets Society	Disney	$95,860,116

Highest-grossing films by MPAA rating of 1989

G	The Little Mermaid
PG	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
PG-13	Batman
R	Lethal Weapon 2

See also

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