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MOVIES

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Grosses

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Highest Grossing Films of 1988

This list features movies that have earned the highest box-office revenue during the year 1988.

RANK

FILMS

WORLDWIDE GROSS

1

Rain Man

$412,800,000

2

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

$351,500,000

3

Coming to America

$288,800,000

4

Crocodile Dundee 2

$239,606,210

5

Twins

$216,600,000

6

Rambo III

$188,715,611

7

Big

$151,665,347

8

Die Hard

$143,651,650

9

Masquerade

$91,593,744

10

The Land Before Time

$82,316,211

11

Midnight Run

$81,613,606

12

Cocktail

$78,222,753

13

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

$78,041,829

14

Beetlejuice

$75,112,659

15

Working Girl

$63,800,000

16

A Fish Called Wanda

$63,493,000

17

Scrooged

$59,450,796

18

Willow

$57,269,863

19

Beaches

$57,041,866

20

Biloxi Blues

$51,684,798

21

Bull Durham

$50,888,729

22

Oliver & Company

$49,576,671

23

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

$49,369,899

24

Colors

$46,616,067

25

Young Guns

$44,726,644

26

Child’s Play

$44,196,684

27

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

$42,039,000

28

Bagdad Cafe

$42,001,910

29

The Great Outdoors

$41,455,230

30

Big Business

$40,150,487


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References

The Numbers (2025). Top Grossing Movies of 1988. Available at: https://www.the-numbers.com/market/1988/top-grossing-movies [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Wikipedia (2025). 1988 in Film. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_in_film [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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