| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master | $9,742,056 | $6,989,358 | 71.7% | $2,752,698 | 28.3% | 1,767 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Betrayed | $7,714,939 | $5,534,787 | 71.7% | $2,180,152 | 28.3% | 1,036 | 1 | United Artists | - | false |
| 3 | A Fish Called Wanda | $5,693,399 | $3,770,807 | 66.2% | $1,922,592 | 33.8% | 1,223 | 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | Young Guns | $5,455,321 | $3,626,907 | 66.5% | $1,828,414 | 33.5% | 1,371 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Die Hard | $5,358,392 | $3,668,253 | 68.5% | $1,690,139 | 31.5% | 1,432 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | $4,620,337 | $2,980,229 | 64.5% | $1,640,108 | 35.5% | 1,549 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Cocktail | $4,497,111 | $2,925,064 | 65% | $1,572,047 | 35% | 1,339 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Married to the Mob | $3,604,979 | $2,401,043 | 66.6% | $1,203,936 | 33.4% | 826 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Stealing Home | $3,468,304 | $2,346,864 | 67.7% | $1,121,440 | 32.3% | 984 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Hot to Trot | $3,229,252 | $2,206,218 | 68.3% | $1,023,034 | 31.7% | 1,156 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Coming to America | $2,662,626 | $1,848,669 | 69.4% | $813,957 | 30.6% | 1,002 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | $2,611,147 | $1,833,290 | 70.2% | $777,857 | 29.8% | 720 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Hero and the Terror | $2,565,393 | $1,840,487 | 71.7% | $724,906 | 28.3% | 995 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 14 | Big | $2,282,852 | $1,504,735 | 65.9% | $778,117 | 34.1% | 990 | 13 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | Midnight Run | $2,070,397 | $1,400,450 | 67.6% | $669,947 | 32.4% | 757 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Last Temptation of Christ | $975,094 | $561,631 | 57.6% | $413,463 | 42.4% | 48 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Crossing Delancey | $138,608 | $46,711 | 33.7% | $91,897 | 66.3% | 1 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | The Thin Blue Line | $30,945 | $17,814 | 57.6% | $13,131 | 42.4% | 1 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 19 | The Year My Voice Broke | $9,195 | $5,487 | 59.7% | $3,708 | 40.3% | 1 | 2 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| - | Code Name: Wild Geese | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Mac and Me | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Stewardess School | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Clean and Sober | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Big Blue | - | $456,891 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
