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.

#	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 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/UIP	15,560,000
5.	The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!	Paramount/UIP	12,464,000
6.	Back to the Future Part II	Universal Pictures/UIP	12,194,000[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]

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Preceded by 1988

1989

Succeeded by 1990