The Top Movies, Weekend of December 14, 1984

		Movie	Distributor	Genre	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	(1)	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount Pictures	Action	$11,514,444	-24.32%	1,532	$7,516	$36,483,317	12
2	(new)	Dune	Universal	Action	$6,025,091		915	$6,585	$6,025,091	3
3	(3)	City Heat	Warner Bros.	Action	$4,313,253	-31.55%	1,393	$3,096	$12,727,736	10
4	(2)	2010	MGM	Thriller/Suspense	$4,138,514	-44.02%	1,126	$3,675	$13,852,640	10
5	(new)	The Cotton Club	Orion Pictures	Drama	$2,903,603		808	$3,594	$2,903,603	3
6	(new)	Starman	Columbia	Adventure	$2,872,022		1,261	$2,278	$2,872,022	3
7	(new)	Runaway	Sony/TriStar	Thriller/Suspense	$1,198,279		720	$1,664	$1,198,279	3
8	(4)	The Terminator	Orion Pictures	Action	$955,973	-33.57%	938	$1,019	$32,838,673	52
9	(9)	Falling in Love	Paramount Pictures	Drama	$782,347	+18.45%	701	$1,116	$7,309,273	26
10	(5)	Missing in Action	Cannon	Action	$762,343	-41.30%	726	$1,050	$21,325,242	31
11	(7)	Supergirl	Sony/TriStar	Adventure	$402,194	-56.84%	601	$669	$12,732,242	26
12	(10)	Amadeus	Warner Bros.	Drama	$399,321	-37.09%	244	$1,637	$16,691,352	89
13	(6)	Night of the Comet	Atlantic	Horror	$364,142	-63.96%	326	$1,117	$13,894,057	31
14	(12)	A Nightmare on Elm Street	New Line	Horror	$337,360	-30.68%	126	$2,677	$7,659,250	38
15	(8)	Oh God, You Devil!	Warner Bros.	Comedy	$314,793	-57.03%	552	$570	$20,236,728	38
16	(11)	Places in the Heart	Sony/TriStar	Drama	$279,887	-48.58%	450	$622	$28,819,304	87
17	(14)	Ghost Busters	Sony Pictures	Comedy	$223,221	-33.57%	329	$678	$219,638,740	192
18	(13)	A Soldier's Story	Columbia	Drama	$154,641	-57.05%	166	$932	$19,550,790	94
19	(15)	Purple Rain	Warner Bros.	Drama	$144,503	-47.11%	266	$543	$68,392,977	143
20	(20)	The Gods Must Be Crazy	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$132,992	-18.18%	39	$3,410	$2,137,763	161
21	(19)	The Karate Kid	Sony Pictures	Action	$116,437	-32.16%	186	$626	$90,429,109	178
22	(new)	A Passage to India	Columbia	Drama	$84,580		3	$28,193	$84,580	3
23	(18)	Just the Way You Are	MGM/UA Classics	Comedy	$76,561	-68.24%	240	$319	$7,517,699	31
24	(23)	Stop Making Sense	Cinecom	Concert	$74,117	-19.03%	12	$6,176	$1,054,785	59
25	(24)	The Brother from Another Planet	Cinecom	Comedy	$60,547	-9.68%	17	$3,562	$951,982	101
26	(22)	Choose Me	Island/Alive	Comedy	$60,233	-46.26%	36	$1,673	$2,292,821	110
27	(21)	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$55,738	-57.32%	106	$526	$6,227,998	129
28	(25)	The Killing Fields	Warner Bros.	Drama	$33,530	-40.45%	3	$11,177	$631,359	45
29	(26)	A Sunday in the Park	MGM/UA Classics	Drama	$14,698	-39.81%	2	$7,349	$183,166	31
30	(new)	Mass Appeal	Universal	Drama	$5,434		1	$5,434	$5,434	3