| 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 | $7,346,112 | - | - | - | - | 1,758 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Betrayed | $6,431,878 | - | - | - | - | 1,099 | 2 | United Artists | - | false |
| 3 | A Fish Called Wanda | $6,010,717 | - | - | - | - | 1,187 | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | Die Hard | $5,617,715 | - | - | - | - | 1,461 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Cocktail | $5,129,777 | - | - | - | - | 1,404 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | $5,021,659 | - | - | - | - | 1,588 | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Young Guns | $4,963,245 | - | - | - | - | 1,399 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Married to the Mob | $3,981,623 | - | - | - | - | 828 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Big | $2,856,335 | - | - | - | - | 1,177 | 14 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Coming to America | $2,689,616 | - | - | - | - | 951 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | $2,674,322 | - | - | - | - | 706 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Stealing Home | $2,485,620 | - | - | - | - | 985 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | Hot to Trot | $2,112,452 | - | - | - | - | 1,157 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | Midnight Run | $2,077,582 | - | - | - | - | 747 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Hero and the Terror | $1,564,187 | - | - | - | - | 981 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 16 | The Last Temptation of Christ | $1,453,744 | - | - | - | - | 81 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Eight Men Out | $1,306,508 | - | - | - | - | 147 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Crossing Delancey | $322,386 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 19 | The Thin Blue Line | $108,151 | - | - | - | - | 8 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| 20 | Rocket Gibraltar | $70,954 | $60,523 | 85.3% | $10,431 | 14.7% | 5 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 21 | The Deceivers | $22,947 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | A Handful of Dust | - | - | - | - | - | 29 | 11 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
