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MOVIES

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Grosses

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Highest Grossing Films of 1989

This list features movies that have earned the highest box-office revenue during the year 1989.

RANK

FILMS

WORLDWIDE GROSS

1

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

$474,171,806

2

Batman

$411,348,924

3

Back to the Future Part II

$331,971,868

4

Look Who's Talking

$297,100,000

5

Dead Poets Society

$239,500,000

6

Lethal Weapon 2

$227,300,000

7

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

$222,700,000

8

The Little Mermaid

$222,267,614

9

Ghostbusters II

$215,500,000

10

Licence to Kill

$156,167,015

11

Black Rain

$133,892,212

12

Parenthood

$126,297,830

13

Sea of Love

$110,879,513

14

Driving Miss Daisy

$106,593,296

15

Harlem Nights

$95,857,262

16

Steel Magnolias

$95,151,938

17

When Harry Met Sally…

$93,000,145

18

The War of the Roses

$83,699,711

19

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

$73,872,288

20

Always

$72,143,630

21

Turner & Hooch

$71,079,915

22

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

$70,200,000

23

Born on the Fourth of July

$70,001,698

24

Uncle Buck

$66,758,538

25

Field of Dreams

$64,431,625

26

Tango & Cash

$63,408,614

27

Pet Sematary

$57,469,850

28

The Abyss

$54,793,434

29

To the Limit

$53,000,000

30

Major League

$49,793,054


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References

The Numbers (2025). Top Grossing Movies of 1989. Available at: https://www.the-numbers.com/market/1989/top-grossing-movies [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Wikipedia (2025). 1989 in Film. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_in_film [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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