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List of 1990 box office number-one films in the United States - Wikipedia

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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 1990.^[1]

Number-one films

#	Weekend end date	Film	Box office	Notes	Ref
1	January 7, 1990	Born on the Fourth of July	$11,023,650	Born on the Fourth of July reached number 1 in its fourth weekend of release.	^[2]
2	January 14, 1990		$8,028,075		^[3]
3	January 21, 1990		$6,228,360		^[4]
4	January 28, 1990	Driving Miss Daisy	$5,705,721	Driving Miss Daisy reached number 1 in its seventh weekend of release.	^[5]
5	February 4, 1990	Driving Miss Daisy	$6,011,600		^[6]
6	February 11, 1990	Hard to Kill	$9,213,631	Highest 3-day weekend debut in the month of February.	^[7]
7	February 19, 1990^{4-day weekend}	Driving Miss Daisy	$9,834,744	Driving Miss Daisy reclaimed number 1 in its ninth weekend of release.	^[8]
8	February 25, 1990	Driving Miss Daisy	$6,107,836		^[9]
9	March 4, 1990	The Hunt for Red October	$17,161,835	The Hunt for Red October broke Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment's record ($10.7 million) for the highest weekend debut in the month of March and for the highest weekend debut for a spring release. It also broke The Living Daylights' record ($11 million) for the highest weekend debut for a spy film. It was also the biggest opener for a film outside of Thanksgiving or summer, beating Beverly Hills Cop's $15.2 million.	^[10]
10	March 11, 1990		$14,058,772		^[11]
11	March 18, 1990		$11,077,359		^[12]
12	March 25, 1990	Pretty Woman	$11,280,591		^[13]
13	April 1, 1990	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	$25,398,367	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles broke The Hunt for Red October's record from four weeks earlier ($17.2 million) for the highest weekend debut in March, the highest weekend debut for a spring release and the biggest opening for an independent film.	^[14]^[15]
14	April 8, 1990		$18,813,741		^[16]
15	April 15, 1990		$14,064,921		^[17]
16	April 22, 1990		$9,797,376		^[18]
17	April 29, 1990	Pretty Woman	$7,150,551	Pretty Woman reclaimed number 1 in its sixth weekend of release.	^[19]
18	May 6, 1990		$6,810,883		^[20]
19	May 13, 1990		$7,594,013		^[21]
20	May 20, 1990	Bird on a Wire	$15,338,160		^[22]
21	May 28, 1990^{4-day weekend}	Back to the Future Part III	$23,703,060		^[23]
22	June 3, 1990	Total Recall	$25,533,700	Total Recall had the highest weekend debut for an R-rated film and the highest debut of 1990.	^[24]^[25]
23	June 10, 1990	Another 48 Hrs.	$19,475,559		^[26]
24	June 17, 1990	Dick Tracy	$22,543,911	Included an estimated $1.5 million of t-shirt sales. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' biggest opener beating Honey, I Shrunk the Kids's $14.3 million.	^[27]
25	June 24, 1990	Dick Tracy	$15,546,837		^[28]
26	July 1, 1990	Days of Thunder	$15,490,445		^[29]
27	July 8, 1990	Die Hard 2	$21,744,661		^[30]
28	July 15, 1990	Die Hard 2	$14,512,301		^[31]
29	July 22, 1990	Ghost	$12,523,295	Ghost reached number 1 in its second weekend of release.	^[32]
30	July 29, 1990	Presumed Innocent	$11,718,981		^[33]
31	August 5, 1990	Ghost	$10,798,834	Ghost reclaimed number 1 in fourth weekend of release.	^[34]
32	August 12, 1990	Flatliners	$10,034,685		^[35]
33	August 19, 1990	The Exorcist III	$9,312,219		^[36]
34	August 26, 1990	Darkman	$8,054,860		^[37]
35	September 3, 1990^{4-day weekend}	Ghost	$9,953,630	Ghost reclaimed number 1 in eighth weekend of release.	^[38]
36	September 9, 1990	Ghost	$6,510,023		^[39]
37	September 16, 1990	Postcards from the Edge	$7,871,856		^[40]
38	September 23, 1990	Goodfellas	$6,368,901		^[41]
39	September 30, 1990	Pacific Heights	$6,912,637		^[42]
40	October 8, 1990^{4-day weekend}	Marked for Death	$11,790,047		^[43]
41	October 14, 1990		$7,423,949		^[44]
42	October 21, 1990		$5,097,944		^[45]
43	October 28, 1990	Graveyard Shift	$5,082,300		^[46]
44	November 4, 1990	Jacob's Ladder	$7,500,760		^[47]
45	November 11, 1990	Child's Play 2	$10,718,520	Seventh consecutive week that a horror thriller was number one.	^[48]
46	November 18, 1990	Home Alone	$17,081,997	Biggest pre-holiday fall opening. Home Alone remained number one for 12 consecutive weekends.	^[49]
47	November 25, 1990		$20,987,761	Second-highest Thanksgiving weekend.	^[50]
48	December 2, 1990		$14,386,876		^[51]
49	December 9, 1990		$14,232,156		^[52]
50	December 16, 1990		$11,617,249		^[53]
51	December 25, 1990^{5-day weekend}		$15,079,919		^[54]
52	January 1, 1991^{5-day weekend}		$25,148,406	Highest weekend after 4 weeks of wide release.	^[55]

Highest-grossing films

Calendar gross

Highest calendar gross films of 1990 in the United States^[56]
Rank	Title	Studio(s)	Actor(s)	Director(s)	Gross
1.	Ghost	Paramount Pictures	Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg and Tony Goldwyn	Jerry Zucker	$205,344,137
2.	Pretty Woman	Walt Disney Studios	Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Héctor Elizondo, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo and Ralph Bellamy	Garry Marshall	$170,111,732
3.	Home Alone	20th Century Fox	Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard and Catherine O'Hara	Chris Columbus	$143,592,523
4.	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	New Line Cinema	Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, Brian Tochi, Robbie Rist, Corey Feldman and Josh Pais	Steve Barron	$135,265,915
5.	The Hunt for Red October	Paramount Pictures	Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill and Tim Curry	John McTiernan	$122,012,643
6.	Total Recall	TriStar Pictures	Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside and Ronny Cox	Paul Verhoeven	$119,394,840
7.	Die Hard 2	20th Century Fox	Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Reginald VelJohnson, Franco Nero, William Sadler, Dennis Franz and John Amos	Renny Harlin	$117,540,947
8.	Driving Miss Daisy	Warner Bros. Pictures	Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone and Esther Rolle	Bruce Beresford	$103,859,381
9.	Dick Tracy	Walt Disney Studios	Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly and Charlie Korsmo	Warren Beatty	$103,738,726
10.	Back to the Future Part III	Universal Pictures	Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson and Lea Thompson	Robert Zemeckis	$87,727,583

In-year release

Highest-grossing films of 1990 by In-year release^[57]
Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross
1.	Home Alone	20th Century Fox	$285,761,243
2.	Ghost	Paramount	$217,631,306
3.	Dances with Wolves	Orion	$184,208,848
4.	Pretty Woman	Disney	$178,406,268
5.	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	New Line Cinema	$135,265,915
6.	The Hunt for Red October	Paramount	$122,012,643
7.	Total Recall	TriStar	$119,394,840
8.	Die Hard 2	20th Century Fox	$117,540,947
9.	Dick Tracy	Disney	$103,738,726
10.	Kindergarten Cop	Universal	$91,457,688

Highest-grossing films by MPAA rating of 1990
G	The Jungle Book (1990 Re-issue)
PG	Home Alone
PG-13	Ghost
R	Pretty Woman

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Greece	2013
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