| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Accused | $5,930,160 | $4,316,369 | 72.8% | $1,613,791 | 27.2% | 796 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Alien Nation | $5,405,735 | $4,252,252 | 78.7% | $1,153,483 | 21.3% | 1,436 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Punchline | $4,541,772 | $3,542,663 | 78% | $999,109 | 22% | 904 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Gorillas in the Mist | $3,472,124 | $2,631,125 | 75.8% | $840,999 | 24.2% | 1,085 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | A Fish Called Wanda | $1,568,687 | $1,160,918 | 74% | $407,769 | 26% | 937 | 14 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 6 | Crossing Delancey | $1,521,231 | $1,168,426 | 76.8% | $352,805 | 23.2% | 290 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | $1,331,222 | $1,044,924 | 78.5% | $286,298 | 21.5% | 1,040 | 17 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Die Hard | $1,262,347 | $1,062,121 | 84.1% | $200,226 | 15.9% | 968 | 14 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Cocktail | $1,248,925 | $943,833 | 75.6% | $305,092 | 24.4% | 981 | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Big | $1,154,037 | $903,280 | 78.3% | $250,757 | 21.7% | 834 | 20 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Memories of Me | $1,068,275 | $808,715 | 75.7% | $259,560 | 24.3% | 720 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 12 | Imagine: John Lennon | $1,059,718 | $768,462 | 72.5% | $291,256 | 27.5% | 561 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | Pumpkinhead | $874,720 | $686,567 | 78.5% | $188,153 | 21.5% | 351 | 1 | United Artists | - | false |
| 14 | Clara's Heart | $536,696 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Running on Empty | $459,372 | $354,103 | 77.1% | $105,269 | 22.9% | 238 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 16 | The Last Temptation of Christ | $289,815 | $200,022 | 69% | $89,793 | 31% | 118 | 10 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Madame Sousatzka | $251,083 | $172,740 | 68.8% | $78,343 | 31.2% | 20 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Another Woman | $115,962 | $75,196 | 64.8% | $40,766 | 35.2% | 4 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Salaam Bombay! | $27,632 | $14,994 | 54.3% | $12,638 | 45.7% | 1 | 2 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Track 29 | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | 6 | Island Pictures | - | false |
| - | Heartbreak Hotel | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Dead Ringers | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Elvira: Mistress of the Dark | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | New World Pictures | - | false |
