The Top Movies, Weekend of August 17, 1984

		Movie	Distributor	Genre	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	(new)	Tightrope	Warner Bros.	Thriller/Suspense	$9,156,545		1,535	$5,965	$9,156,545	3
2	(1)	Red Dawn	MGM/UA Classics	Action	$5,584,336	-32.22%	1,792	$3,116	$18,590,986	10
3	(2)	Ghost Busters	Sony Pictures	Comedy	$5,581,794	-5.87%	1,400	$3,987	$171,667,224	73
4	(3)	Purple Rain	Warner Bros.	Drama	$4,002,533	-16.66%	853	$4,692	$34,372,441	24
5	(4)	Revenge of the Nerds	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$3,666,836	-16.50%	971	$3,776	$18,479,763	31
6	(5)	The Karate Kid	Sony Pictures	Action	$3,420,623	+7.54%	1,030	$3,321	$59,595,611	59
7	(new)	The Woman in Red	Orion Pictures	Comedy	$3,165,833		1,066	$2,970	$4,027,121	5
8	(new)	Sheena	Columbia	Adventure	$2,950,114		1,496	$1,972	$2,950,114	3
9	(new)	Dreamscape	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$2,257,627		816	$2,767	$2,257,627	3
10	(6)	Gremlins	Warner Bros.	Comedy	$2,170,739	-31.12%	1,013	$2,143	$129,469,035	73
11	(9)	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Paramount Pictures	Adventure	$1,619,339	-23.28%	730	$2,218	$161,855,830	89
12	(7)	Cloak & Dagger	Universal	Action	$1,589,121	-44.48%	951	$1,671	$5,806,066	10
13	(8)	The Jungle Book	Buena Vista	Musical	$1,216,037	-43.22%	1,109	$1,097	$19,918,798	6,151
14	(12)	Bachelor Party	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$661,440	-46.32%	449	$1,473	$34,532,661	52
15	(15)	The Last Starfighter	Universal	Comedy	$636,400	-40.77%	370	$1,720	$22,200,789	38
16	(10)	The Neverending Story	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$627,137	-52.85%	367	$1,709	$18,192,059	31
17	(14)	The Philadelphia Experiment	New World	Adventure	$625,295	-42.39%	261	$2,396	$4,726,489	17
18	(13)	The Muppets Take Manhattan	Sony/TriStar	Comedy	$609,400	-50.39%	554	$1,100	$23,026,622	38
19	(17)	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$414,962	-33.10%	183	$2,268	$1,389,688	10
20	(19)	Romancing the Stone	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$327,630	-31.70%	252	$1,300	$74,729,331	143
21	(21)	The Natural	Sony/TriStar	Drama	$247,200	-15.83%	206	$1,200	$46,869,829	101
22	(22)	Love Letters	New World	Thriller/Suspense	$198,627	-5.19%	77	$2,580	$5,269,990	115
23	(25)	Under the Volcano	Universal	Drama	$99,686	-23.85%	19	$5,247	$1,307,411	68