List of 1983 box office number-one films in the United States

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United States during 1983.^[1]

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#	Weekend end date	Film	Gross	Notes	Ref
1	January 9, 1983	Tootsie	$10,553,448		^[3]
2	January 16, 1983		$9,487,210		^[4]
3	January 23, 1983		$8,407,104		^[5]
4	January 30, 1983		$7,325,537		^[6]
5	February 6, 1983		$6,523,267		^[7]
6	February 13, 1983		$4,747,425		^[8]
7	February 21, 1983^{4-day weekend}		$7,524,261		^[9]
8	February 27, 1983		$5,236,117		^[10]
9	March 6, 1983		$4,349,058		^[11]
10	March 13, 1983		$4,044,440		^[12]
11	March 20, 1983	High Road to China	$6,156,049		^[13]
12	March 27, 1983	Spring Break	$5,908,574		^[14]
13	April 3, 1983	Spring Break	$4,448,821		^[15]
14	April 10, 1983	Tootsie	$3,430,963	Tootsie reclaimed #1 in seventeenth weekend of release and became Columbia Pictures highest-grossing film in the US and Canada, surpassing Close Encounters of the Third Kind.	^[16]
15	April 17, 1983	Lone Wolf McQuade	$4,295,300		^[17]
16	April 24, 1983	Flashdance	$4,085,494	Flashdance reached No. 1 in its second weekend of release.	^[18]
17	May 1, 1983		$4,095,000		^[19]
18	May 8, 1983		$3,385,578		^[20]
19	May 15, 1983	Blue Thunder	$8,258,149		^[21]
20	May 22, 1983	Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone	$7,053,016		^[22]
21	May 30, 1983^{4-day weekend}	Return of the Jedi †	$30,490,619	Return of the Jedi had the highest weekend of all-time beating E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial's 4th weekend gross of $17.3 million, Rocky III's 4-day opening weekend gross of $16.0 million and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan's 3-day opening weekend gross of $14.3 million.	^[23]
22	June 5, 1983		$17,229,694	Return of the Jedi also claimed the record for highest second weekend beating E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.	^[24]
23	June 12, 1983		$11,995,064		^[25]
24	June 19, 1983	Superman III	$13,352,357		^[26]
25	June 26, 1983	Return of the Jedi †	$11,127,915	Return of the Jedi reclaimed #1 in fifth weekend of release.	^[27]
26	July 4, 1983^{4-day weekend}		$12,038,626		^[28]
27	July 10, 1983		$7,337,926		^[29]
28	July 17, 1983	Staying Alive	$12,146,143		^[30]
29	July 24, 1983	Jaws 3-D	$13,422,500	Jaws 3-D broke Friday the 13th Part III's ($9.40 million) record for highest weekend debut for a 3-D film.	^[31]
30	July 31, 1983	National Lampoon's Vacation	$8,333,358		^[32]
31	August 7, 1983		$7,191,832		^[33]
32	August 14, 1983		$6,161,649		^[34]
33	August 21, 1983	Easy Money	$5,844,974		^[35]
34	August 28, 1983	Mr. Mom	$6,445,106	Mr. Mom reached No. 1 in its second weekend of release.	^[36]
35	September 5, 1983^{4-day weekend}		$8,221,715		^[37]
36	September 11, 1983		$4,686,652		^[38]
37	September 18, 1983		$3,860,064		^[39]
38	September 25, 1983		$3,207,199		^[40]
39	October 2, 1983	The Big Chill	$3,662,152		^[41]
40	October 10, 1983^{4-day weekend}	Never Say Never Again	$10,958,157	Never Say Never Again sets a record weekend debut for October over the Columbus Day weekend.	^[42]
41	October 16, 1983		$7,233,884		^[43]
42	October 23, 1983		$6,011,610		^[44]
43	October 30, 1983		$3,781,141		^[45]
44	November 6, 1983	Deal of the Century	$3,520,605		^[46]
45	November 13, 1983	The Big Chill	$2,929,243	The Big Chill reclaimed #1 in seventh weekend of release.	^[47]
46	November 20, 1983	Amityville 3-D	$2,366,472		^[48]
47	November 27, 1983	A Christmas Story	$3,935,944	A Christmas Story reached No. 1 in its second weekend of release.	^[49]
48	December 4, 1983	Terms of Endearment	$3,125,453	Terms of Endearment reached No. 1 in its second weekend of release.	^[50]
49	December 11, 1983	Sudden Impact	$9,688,561		^[51]
50	December 18, 1983		$7,143,953		^[52]
51	December 26, 1983^{4-day weekend}		$5,957,766		^[53]
52	January 2, 1984^{4-day weekend}	Terms of Endearment	$9,058,537	Terms of Endearment reclaimed #1 in sixth weekend of release.	^[54]

Rank	Title	Studio(s)	Actor(s)	Director(s)	Gross
1.	Return of the Jedi	20th Century Fox	Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew and Frank Oz	Richard Marquand	$247,371,242
2.	Tootsie	Columbia Pictures	Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman and Charles Durning	Sydney Pollack	$146,259,321
3.	Flashdance	Paramount Pictures	Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri	Adrian Lyne	$92,921,203
4.	Trading Places	Paramount Pictures	Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott and Jamie Lee Curtis	John Landis	$90,404,800
5.	WarGames	United Artists	Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy	John Badham	$79,567,667
6.	Octopussy	United Artists	Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir Bedi and Steven Berkoff	John Glen	$67,893,619
7.	Staying Alive	Paramount Pictures	John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes and Steve Inwood	Sylvester Stallone	$64,892,670
8.	Risky Business	Warner Bros. Pictures	Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay	Paul Brickman	$63,541,777
9.	Mr. Mom	20th Century Fox	Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Martin Mull, Ann Jillian and Christopher Lloyd	Stan Dragoti	$63,090,965
10.	National Lampoon's Vacation	Warner Bros. Pictures	Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, John Candy and Christie Brinkley	Harold Ramis	$61,399,552

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross
1.	Return of the Jedi	20th Century Fox	$309,306,177
2.	Terms of Endearment	Paramount	$108,423,489
3.	Flashdance		$92,921,203
4.	Trading Places		$90,404,800
5.	WarGames	United Artists	$79,567,667
6.	Octopussy	United Artists	$67,893,619
7.	Sudden Impact	Warner Bros.	$67,642,693
8.	Staying Alive	Paramount	$64,892,670
9.	Mr. Mom	20th Century Fox	$64,783,827
10.	Risky Business	Warner Bros.	$63,541,777

G	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1983 Re-issue)
PG	Return of the Jedi
R	Flashdance

List of 1983 box office number-one films in the United States

Number-one films

Highest-grossing films

Calendar Gross

In-Year Release

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References

Chronology

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