List of 1989 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

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This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekly box office in the United Kingdom during 1989.

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Number one films

#Week endingFilmNotesRef
16 January 1989 Who Framed Roger Rabbit [1]
213 January 1989 [2]
320 January 1989 [3]
427 January 1989 Cocktail [4]
53 February 1989 [5]
610 February 1989 Die Hard [6]
717 February 1989 [7]
824 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]
93 March 1989 [9]
1010 March 1989 [10]
1117 March 1989 Rain Man Rain Man reached number one in its second week of release [11]
1224 March 1989 Twins [12]
1331 March 1989 [13]
147 April 1989Rain ManRain Man returned to number one in its fifth week of release [14]
1514 April 1989 [15]
1621 April 1989 Working Girl [16]
1728 April 1989Rain ManRain Man returned to number one in its eighth week of release [17]
185 May 1989 My Stepmother is an Alien My Stepmother is an Alien reached number one in its second week of release [18]
1912 May 1989 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master [19]
2019 May 1989 [20]
2126 May 1989 Mississippi Burning Mississippi Burning reached number one in its third week of release [21]
222 June 1989 [22]
239 June 1989 [23]
2416 June 1989 Beaches Beaches reached number one in its third week of release [24]
2523 June 1989 Hellbound: Hellraiser II [25]
2630 June 1989 Licence to Kill Licence to Kill reached number one in its second week of release [26]
277 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]
2814 July 1989 [29]
2921 July 1989 [30]
3028 July 1989 [31]
314 August 1989 [32]
3211 August 1989 [33]
3318 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]
3425 August 1989Batman grossed £1.26 million for the weekend [37] [35]
351 September 1989 [38]
368 September 1989 [39]
3715 September 1989 See No Evil, Hear No Evil See No Evil, Hear No Evil reached number one in its second week of release [40]
3822 September 1989 Lethal Weapon 2 [41]
3929 September 1989 [42]
406 October 1989 Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Society reached number one in its second week of release [43]
4113 October 1989 [44]
4220 October 1989 Young Einstein [45]
4327 October 1989 [46]
443 November 1989 Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine reached number one in its third week of release [47]
4510 November 1989 [48]
4617 November 1989 [49]
4724 November 1989 Wilt Wilt reached number one in its third week of release [50]
481 December 1989 Back to the Future Part II [51]
498 December 1989 [52]
5015 December 1989 [53]
5122 December 1989 [54]
5229 December 1989Back 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] TitleDistributorGross (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/UIP12,464,000
6. Back to the Future Part II Universal Pictures/UIP12,194,000 [nb 1]
7. Licence to Kill United Artists/UIP12,157,000
8. Lethal Weapon 2 Warner Bros.10,815,000
9. Twins Universal/UIP10,547,000
10. Shirley Valentine Paramount/UIP9,954,000 [nb 2]

Notes

  1. ↑ The chart per The Guinness Book of Box Office Hits does not list Back to the Future Part II.
  2. ↑ The chart per The Guinness Book of Box Office Hits lists Dead Poet's Society and Cocktail higher than Shirley Valentine. For the period, Variety reported grosses of $9,953,000 and $9,329,000 for those films respectively.

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