List of 1989 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom
This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekly box office in the United Kingdom during 1989 .
Number one films
#
Week ending
Film
Notes
Ref
1
6 January 1989 Who Framed Roger Rabbit [ 1]
2
13 January 1989 [ 2]
3
20 January 1989 [ 3]
4
27 January 1989 Cocktail [ 4]
5
3 February 1989 [ 5]
6
10 February 1989 Die Hard [ 6]
7
17 February 1989 [ 7]
8
24 February 1989 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! reached number one in its second week of release[ 8]
9
3 March 1989 [ 9]
10
10 March 1989 [ 10]
11
17 March 1989 Rain Man Rain Man reached number one in its second week of release[ 11]
12
24 March 1989 Twins [ 12]
13
31 March 1989 [ 13]
14
7 April 1989 Rain Man Rain Man returned to number one in its fifth week of release[ 14]
15
14 April 1989 [ 15]
16
21 April 1989 Working Girl [ 16]
17
28 April 1989 Rain Man Rain Man returned to number one in its eighth week of release[ 17]
18
5 May 1989 My Stepmother is an Alien My Stepmother is an Alien reached number one in its second week of release[ 18]
19
12 May 1989 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master [ 19]
20
19 May 1989 [ 20]
21
26 May 1989 Mississippi Burning Mississippi Burning reached number one in its third week of release[ 21]
22
2 June 1989 [ 22]
23
9 June 1989 [ 23]
24
16 June 1989 Beaches Beaches reached number one in its third week of release[ 24]
25
23 June 1989 Hellbound: Hellraiser II [ 25]
26
30 June 1989 Licence to Kill Licence to Kill reached number one in its second week of release[ 26]
27
7 July 1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade grossed a record £1,811,542 in its opening weekend and £3,125,434 in its opening week beating the records set by Crocodile Dundee II [ 27] [ 28]
28
14 July 1989 [ 29]
29
21 July 1989 [ 30]
30
28 July 1989 [ 31]
31
4 August 1989 [ 32]
32
11 August 1989 [ 33]
33
18 August 1989 Batman Batman beat the opening weekend and week records set in July by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with a gross of £2,058,159 for the weekend and £3,945,527 for the week[ 34] [ 28] [ 35] [ 36]
34
25 August 1989 Batman grossed £1.26 million for the weekend[ 37] [ 35]
35
1 September 1989 [ 38]
36
8 September 1989 [ 39]
37
15 September 1989 See No Evil, Hear No Evil See No Evil, Hear No Evil reached number one in its second week of release[ 40]
38
22 September 1989 Lethal Weapon 2 [ 41]
39
29 September 1989 [ 42]
40
6 October 1989 Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Society reached number one in its second week of release[ 43]
41
13 October 1989 [ 44]
42
20 October 1989 Young Einstein [ 45]
43
27 October 1989 [ 46]
44
3 November 1989 Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine reached number one in its third week of release[ 47]
45
10 November 1989 [ 48]
46
17 November 1989 [ 49]
47
24 November 1989 Wilt Wilt reached number one in its third week of release[ 50]
48
1 December 1989 Back to the Future Part II [ 51]
49
8 December 1989 [ 52]
50
15 December 1989 [ 53]
51
22 December 1989 [ 54]
52
29 December 1989 Back to the Future Part II grossed £707,726 for the week[ 55] [ 54]
Highest-grossing films
Highest-grossing films in the U.K. between 1 December 1988 and 21 December 1989
Rank[ 56] [ 57]
Title
Distributor
Gross (US$)
1.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Paramount Pictures /UIP 25,732,000
2.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit Touchstone Pictures /Warner Bros. 25,384,000
3.
Batman Warner Bros.
19,413,000
4.
Rain Man United Artists /UIP15,560,000
5.
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Paramount/UIP
12,464,000
6.
Back to the Future Part II Universal Pictures /UIP12,194,000[ nb 1]
7.
Licence to Kill United Artists/UIP
12,157,000
8.
Lethal Weapon 2 Warner Bros.
10,815,000
9.
Twins Universal/UIP
10,547,000
10.
Shirley Valentine Paramount/UIP
9,954,000[ nb 2]
Notes
^ The chart per The Guinness Book of Box Office Hits does not list Back to the Future Part II .
^ The chart per The Guinness Book of Box Office Hits lists Dead Poet's Society Cocktail Shirley Valentine . For the period, Variety reported grosses of $9,953,000 and $9,329,000 for those films respectively.
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