Box Office
Domestic box office · 1988
The top-grossing releases of the year. Switch between worldwide, domestic, and international — every figure shown both as reported and adjusted for inflation, so films from any era are directly comparable.
| # | Title | Domestic | Adjusted for inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rain Man | $172.8M | $480.4M |
| 2 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | $156.5M | $434.9M |
| 3 | Coming to America | $128.2M | $356.2M |
| 4 | Big | $115.0M | $319.6M |
| 5 | Twins | $111.9M | $311.1M |
| 6 | Crocodile Dundee II | $109.3M | $303.8M |
| 7 | Die Hard | $83.0M | $230.7M |
| 8 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | $78.8M | $218.9M |
| 9 | Cocktail | $78.2M | $217.4M |
| 10 | Beetlejuice | $73.7M | $204.9M |
| 11 | Working Girl | $63.8M | $177.3M |
| 12 | A Fish Called Wanda | $62.5M | $173.7M |
| 13 | Scrooged | $60.3M | $167.7M |
| 14 | Willow | $57.3M | $159.2M |
| 15 | Beaches | $57.0M | $158.5M |
| 16 | Rambo III | $53.7M | $149.3M |
| 17 | Oliver & Company | $53.3M | $148.1M |
| 18 | Bull Durham | $50.9M | $141.4M |
| 19 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master | $49.4M | $137.2M |
| 20 | The Land Before Time | $48.5M | $134.7M |
| 21 | Colors | $46.6M | $129.6M |
| 22 | Young Guns | $45.7M | $126.9M |
| 23 | Biloxi Blues | $43.2M | $120.0M |
| 24 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | $42.0M | $116.8M |
| 25 | The Great Outdoors | $41.5M | $115.2M |
| 26 | Tequila Sunrise | $41.3M | $114.8M |
| 27 | Big Business | $40.2M | $111.6M |
| 28 | Bambi 1988 Re-release | $39.0M | $108.5M |
| 29 | Midnight Run | $38.4M | $106.8M |
| 30 | The Dead Pool | $37.9M | $105.4M |
| 31 | Red Heat | $35.0M | $97.3M |
| 32 | Dangerous Liaisons | $34.7M | $96.4M |
| 33 | Mississippi Burning | $34.6M | $96.2M |
| 34 | Child's Play | $33.2M | $92.4M |
| 35 | The Accidental Tourist | $32.6M | $90.7M |
| 36 | The Accused | $32.1M | $89.2M |
| 37 | Shoot to Kill | $29.3M | $81.4M |
| 38 | Ernest Saves Christmas | $28.2M | $78.4M |
| 39 | Betrayed | $25.8M | $71.8M |
| 40 | Funny Farm | $25.5M | $71.0M |
| 41 | Alien Nation | $25.2M | $70.1M |
| 42 | Gorillas in the Mist | $24.7M | $68.7M |
| 43 | The Fox and the Hound 1988 Re-release | $23.6M | $65.5M |
| 44 | License to Drive | $22.4M | $62.4M |
| 45 | Short Circuit 2 | $21.6M | $60.1M |
| 46 | Married to the Mob | $21.5M | $59.7M |
| 47 | Punchline | $21.0M | $58.5M |
| 48 | The Presidio | $20.3M | $56.5M |
| 49 | Action Jackson | $20.3M | $56.3M |
| 50 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | $19.7M | $54.6M |
| 51 | The Serpent and the Rainbow | $19.6M | $54.5M |
| 52 | Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach | $19.5M | $54.2M |
| 53 | Friday the 13th: The New Blood | $19.2M | $53.3M |
| 54 | Cocoon: The Return | $18.9M | $52.6M |
| 55 | The Seventh Sign | $18.9M | $52.5M |
| 56 | Above the Law | $18.9M | $52.4M |
| 57 | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | $17.8M | $49.4M |
| 58 | Frantic | $17.6M | $49.0M |
| 59 | Johnny Be Good | $17.6M | $48.8M |
| 60 | For Keeps? | $17.5M | $48.7M |
| 61 | Crossing Delancey | $16.3M | $45.2M |
| 62 | Bright Lights, Big City | $16.1M | $44.8M |
| 63 | She's Having a Baby | $16.0M | $44.6M |
| 64 | Masquerade | $15.9M | $44.1M |
| 65 | Big Top Pee-wee | $15.1M | $42.0M |
| 66 | Arthur 2: On the Rocks | $14.7M | $40.8M |
| 67 | School Daze | $14.5M | $40.4M |
| 68 | Poltergeist III | $14.1M | $39.2M |
| 69 | Stand and Deliver | $14.0M | $38.9M |
| 70 | My Stepmother Is an Alien | $13.9M | $38.5M |
| 71 | The Milagro Beanfie ld War | $13.8M | $38.4M |
| 72 | Return to Snowy River | $13.7M | $38.0M |
| 73 | Vice Versa | $13.7M | $38.0M |
| 74 | They Live | $13.4M | $37.4M |
| 75 | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | $13.0M | $36.2M |
| 76 | Mystic Pizza | $12.8M | $35.6M |
| 77 | D.O.A. | $12.7M | $35.3M |
| 78 | Everybody's All-American | $12.6M | $35.1M |
| 79 | Casual Sex? | $12.3M | $34.1M |
| 80 | Hellbound: Hellraiser II | $12.1M | $33.6M |
| 81 | Bloodsport | $11.8M | $32.8M |
| 82 | Caddyshack II | $11.8M | $32.8M |
| 83 | Moon Over Parador | $11.4M | $31.8M |
| 84 | The Couch Trip | $11.0M | $30.6M |
| 85 | Moving | $10.8M | $30.1M |
| 86 | Iron Eagle II | $10.5M | $29.2M |
| 87 | Shakedown | $10.1M | $28.0M |
| 88 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | $10.0M | $27.8M |
| 89 | Bad Dreams | $9.8M | $27.2M |
| 90 | Return of the Living Dead II | $9.2M | $25.6M |
| 91 | Switching Channels | $9.1M | $25.4M |
| 92 | Salsa | $8.9M | $24.7M |
| 93 | Clean and Sober | $8.7M | $24.1M |
| 94 | U2: Rattle and Hum | $8.6M | $23.9M |
| 95 | High Spirits | $8.6M | $23.8M |
| 96 | Without a Clue | $8.5M | $23.7M |
| 97 | The Last Temptation of Christ | $8.4M | $23.3M |
| 98 | Satisfaction | $8.3M | $22.9M |
| 99 | The Blob | $8.2M | $22.9M |
| 100 | Dead Ringers | $8.0M | $22.3M |
“Adjusted for inflation” restates each gross in today’s dollars using US CPI-U annual averages. Domestic and international views are re-ranked from the year’s top releases; some early years report domestic-only figures.