Highest-grossing films of 1987[1]
Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Actor/Actress |
Director |
Gross |
1. |
Three Men and a Baby |
Touchstone |
Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, and Steve Guttenberg |
Leonard Nimoy |
$167,780,960 |
2. |
Fatal Attraction |
Paramount |
Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer |
Adrian Lyne |
$156,645,693 |
3. |
Beverly Hills Cop II |
Paramount |
Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Brigitte Nielsen, John Ashton, and Paul Reiser |
Tony Scott |
$153,665,036 |
4. |
Good Morning, Vietnam |
Touchstone |
Robin Williams and Forest Whitaker |
Barry Levinson |
$123,922,370 |
5. |
Moonstruck |
MGM |
Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia, and Danny Aiello |
Norman Jewison |
$80,640,528 |
6. |
The Untouchables |
Paramount |
Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Andy García, and Charles Martin Smith |
Brian De Palma |
$76,270,454 |
7. |
The Secret of My Success |
Universal |
Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Margaret Whitton, and Richard Jordan |
Herbert Ross |
$66,995,000 |
8. |
Stakeout |
Touchstone |
Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe, and Aidan Quinn |
John Badham |
$65,673,233 |
9. |
Lethal Weapon |
Warner Bros. |
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and Gary Busey |
Richard Donner |
$65,207,127 |
10. |
Dirty Dancing |
Vestron |
Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, and Cynthia Rhodes |
Emile Ardolino |
$63,892,689 |
11. |
The Witches of Eastwick |
Warner Bros. |
Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer |
George Miller |
$63,766,510 |
12. |
Predator |
Fox |
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, Bill Duke, Shane Black, and Kevin Peter Hall |
John McTiernan |
$59,735,548 |
13. |
Throw Momma from the Train |
Orion |
Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Kate Mulgrew, and Anne Ramsey |
Danny DeVito |
$57,915,972 |
14. |
Dragnet |
Universal |
Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Alexandra Paul, Christopher Plummer, and Dabney Coleman |
Tom Mankiewicz |
$57,387,516 |
15. |
RoboCop |
Orion |
Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, and Dan O'Herlihy |
Paul Verhoeven |
$53,424,681 |
16. |
Outrageous Fortune |
Touchstone |
Bette Midler and Shelley Long |
Arthur Hiller |
$52,864,741 |
17. |
La Bamba |
Columbia |
Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosana DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña, and Danielle von Zerneck |
Luis Valdez |
$52,678,820 |
18. |
Broadcast News |
Fox |
William Hurt, Holly Hunter, and Albert Brooks |
James L. Brooks |
$51,300,000 |
19. |
The Living Daylights |
United Artists |
Timothy Dalton and Maryam d'Abo |
John Glen |
$51,185,000 |
20. |
Eddie Murphy Raw |
Paramount |
Eddie Murphy |
Robert Townsend |
$50,505,655 |