Domestic Box Office For May 1993
| Rank | Release | Gross | Max Th | Opening | % of Total | Open Th | Open | Close | Distributor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cliffhanger | $84,049,211 | 2,431 | $16,176,967 | 19.2% | 2,333 | May 28 | - | TriStar Pictures |
| 2 | Dave | $63,270,710 | 1,916 | $7,306,755 | 11.5% | 1,155 | May 7 | - | Warner Bros. |
| 3 | Made in America | $44,942,695 | 2,048 | $11,821,326 | 26.3% | 2,048 | May 28 | - | Warner Bros. |
| 4 | Hot Shots! Part Deux | $38,922,972 | 2,140 | $10,250,661 | 26.3% | 2,122 | May 21 | - | Twentieth Century Fox |
| 5 | Sliver | $36,300,000 | 2,093 | $12,138,283 | 33.4% | 2,093 | May 21 | - | Paramount Pictures |
| 6 | Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story | $35,113,743 | 1,985 | $10,019,970 | 28.5% | 1,887 | May 7 | - | Universal Pictures |
| 7 | Menace II Society | $27,912,072 | 581 | $3,816,393 | 13.7% | 464 | May 28 | - | New Line Cinema |
| 8 | Much Ado About Nothing | $22,549,338 | 204 | $108,617 | 0.5% | 3 | May 7 | - | The Samuel Goldwyn Company |
| 9 | Super Mario Bros. | $20,915,465 | 2,081 | $8,532,623 | 40.8% | 2,081 | May 28 | - | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| 10 | Posse | $18,289,763 | 949 | $5,311,902 | 29% | 949 | May 14 | - | Gramercy Pictures (I) |
| 11 | Lost in Yonkers | $9,285,189 | 1,190 | $3,002,150 | 32.3% | 1,190 | May 14 | - | Columbia Pictures |
| 12 | Happily Ever After | $3,299,382 | 1,018 | $1,756,050 | 53.2% | 1,018 | May 28 | - | First National Film Corporation |
| 13 | Carnosaur | $1,753,979 | 65 | $142,127 | 8.1% | 65 | May 21 | - | Concorde Pictures |
| 14 | Excessive Force | $1,152,117 | 501 | $308,499 | 26.8% | 501 | May 14 | - | New Line Cinema |
| 15 | Leolo | $611,703 | - | - | - | - | May 7 | - | Fine Line Features |
| 16 | Sex Is... | $530,833 | 6 | - | - | - | May 7 | - | Outsider Films |
| 17 | American Heart | $384,048 | 8 | $5,549 | 1.4% | 1 | May 7 | - | Triton Pictures |
